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Lester B. Pearson Canadian Prime Minister Nobel Peace Prize (1957)

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Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968.

The Right Honourable

Lester B. Pearson

PC OM CC OBE

14th Prime Minister of Canada

In office

22 April 1963 – 20 April 1968

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Governors General

Georges Vanier

Roland Michener

Preceded by

John Diefenbaker

Succeeded by

Pierre Trudeau

Leader of the Liberal Party

In office

16 January 1958 – 6 April 1968

Preceded by

Louis St. Laurent

Succeeded by

Pierre Trudeau

Leader of the Opposition

In office

16 January 1958 – 22 April 1963

Preceded by

Louis St. Laurent

Succeeded by

John Diefenbaker

Secretary of State for External Affairs

In office

10 September 1948 – 20 June 1957

Prime Minister

W. L. Mackenzie King

Louis St. Laurent

Preceded by

Louis St. Laurent

Succeeded by

John Diefenbaker

Ambassador of Canada to the United States

In office

July 1944 – September 1946

Prime Minister

W. L. Mackenzie King

Preceded by

Leighton McCarthy

Succeeded by

H. H. Wrong

7th President of the United Nations General Assembly

In office

14 October 1952 – 23 April 1953

Preceded by

Luis Padilla Nervo

Succeeded by

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Member of Parliament

for Algoma East

In office

25 October 1948 – 23 April 1968

Preceded by

Thomas Farquhar

Succeeded by

Riding abolished

Personal details

Born

Lester Bowles Pearson

23 April 1897

Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada

Died

27 December 1972 (aged 75)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Resting place

Maclaren Cemetery, Wakefield, Quebec

Political Moody (m. 1925)

Children

2, including of Toronto (BA)

St John's College, Oxford (BA, Peace Prize (1957)

Military Expeditionary Force

Permanent Active Militia

Royal Flying Corps

Years of Officer

Battles/wars

World War I

Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of Toronto), Pearson pursued a career in the Department of External Affairs. He served as Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1946 and secretary of state for external affairs from 1948 to 1957 under Liberal Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent. He narrowly lost the offer to become secretary-general of the United Nations in 1953. However, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis, which earned him attention worldwide. After the Liberals' defeat in the 1957 federal election, Pearson easily won the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1958. Pearson suffered two consecutive defeats by Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1958 and 1962, only to successfully challenge him for a third time in the 1963 federal election. Pearson would win re-election in 1965.

Pearson ran two back-to-back minority governments during his tenure, and the Liberals not having a majority in the House of Commons meant he needed support from the opposition parties. With that support, Pearson launched progressive policies such as universal health care, the Canada Student Loan Program, and the Canada Pension Plan. Pearson also introduced the Order of Canada and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and oversaw the creation of the Maple Leaf flag that was implemented in 1965. His government unified the Canadian Armed Forces and kept Canada out of the Vietnam War. In 1967, Canada became the first country in the world to implement a points-based immigration system. After half a decade in power, Pearson resigned as prime minister and retired from politics.

With his government programs and policies, together with his groundbreaking work at the United Nations and in international diplomacy, which included his role in ending the Suez Crisis, Pearson is generally considered among the most influential Canadians of the 20th century and is ranked among the greatest Canadian prime ministers.