Benjamin Franklin Trueblood

Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916) was an American pacifist who served the American Peace Society for 23 years. In this role, he functioned as the official public spokesperson and representative of the Society. He served as editor of the Society's journal, The Advocate of Peace which contained numerous articles by Trueblood. His parents were Quakers, and he belonged to the Society of Friends throughout his life. He was buried at the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Ohio. He translated Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch and authored numerous books and pamphlets. Trueblood's book Federation of the World contains his two Adin Ballou lectures. He was nominated by Klas Pontus Arnoldson for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913. He served the American Peace Society until 1915, during which he increased its membership from 400 to nearly 8,000.