Lester Bowles Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.
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Lester Bowles Pearson 23 April 1897 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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27 December 1972 (aged 75) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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