The Right Honourable
Lester Bowles Pearson
THE POLITICAL POWER
- 22 April 1963 - 20 April 1968
BORN
- 23 April 1897, Newtonbrook, Ontario
EDUCATION
- University of Toronto (B.A.)
- Oxford University (M.A. and Honorary Doctor of Laws)
PERSONAL STATUS
- Married 1925, Maryon Moody (1902 - 1991)
- One daughter, one son
OCCUPATION
- 1914 - 1918 Canadian Army Medical Corps and Royal Flying Corps
- 1923 History lecturer, University of Toronto
- 1928 Joined the Department of External Affairs
- 1935 - 1941 First Secretary to the Canadian High Commission, London
- 1942 Second in command at the Canadian Legation in Washington
- 1945 - 1946 Canadian Ambassador to the United States
- 1946 Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs
- 1951 - 1952 Chairman of the NATO Council
- 1952 - 1953 President of the United Nations General Asssembly
- Author
PARTY
- Liberal
- 1958 - 1968 Party Leader
CONSTITUENCIES
- 1948 - 1968 Algoma East, Ontario
OTHER MINISTRIES
- 1948 - 1957 External Affairs
POLITICAL RECORD
- Nobel Peace Prize 1957
- Responsible for Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1963 - 1967
- Canada Pension Plan 1965
- Canada-United States Automotive Agreement (Auto Pact) 1965
- New National Flag 1965
DIED
- 27 December 1972, Ottawa, Ontario
BURIED
- Maclaren Cemetery, Wakefield, Quebec
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