John Palfrey, recognized as one of the Best Leaders in America by U.S. News & World Report, is an American educator, legal scholar, and author who serves as the president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth.
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Russo-Japanese War: wounded men in a tent at the depot hospital at Ting-chia-chuang, China. Collotype, c. 1905. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Learning that Mr. Palfrey is a blood relative of one of our most favorite presidents, puts this 250 in a special light. Learning that the history of the Treaty of Portsmouth brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt garnered him the Nobel Peace Prize brings a moment of pride for our country. We are all surely the better for his having walked among us.