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Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) participated in the disarmament conferences of 1933 and 1934, and represented Canada in the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He was appointed Minister of External Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent in 1948. Mr. Pearson was President of the seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly 1952-53. For his work in helping to resolve the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Lester Pearson served as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 1963-1968.
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Lester Bowles Pearson entered Victoria College in the fall of 1913 at the age of sixteen. His father, a Methodist parson in Newtonbrook, Ontario, was ... a Victoria College graduate. Pearson's cousin, and his older brother "Duke", were already students at Vic and the two brothers shared a room in the Burwash residences.
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Lester Bowles Pearson (Liberal Party of Canada) became Prime Minister of Canada on April 22, 1963, and served in that office until April 19, 1968. Highlights of his term in office include making Medicare universal in 1966, the creation of the Canada Pension Plan and the adoption of a new national flag, both in 1965. Before becoming Prime Minister, Mr. Pearson was the Leader of the Opposition from 1958 to 1963, President of the United Nations in 1952 and Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1948 to 1957. He was first elected to Parliament in 1948 and prior to that served as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1946. Mr. Pearson was a career diplomat and in 1957 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his peacekeeping activities around the world. He was born in Newton Brook, Ontario, on April 23, 1897, and died in Ottawa, Ontario, on December 27, 1972.
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Lester Bowles Pearson was born in Newton Brook, Ontario in 1897. His father was a Methodist minister who moved frequently, so Pearson and his brothers were schooled in Peterborough, Aurora, Hamilton and other small Ontario towns. In 1913, he went to the University of Toronto to study for a general B.A. Two years later, in the midst of his studies, he enlisted. Pearson served two years as a medical orderly in a military hospital in Salonika. In 1917, he requested a transfer to the RAF and went to air training school in Hendon, England. He survived an airplane crash during his first flight, only to be hit by a bus in London during a blackout!
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Lester Bowles „Mike“ Pearson (* 23. April 1897 in Newtonbrook/Kanada; † 27. Dezember 1972 in Hawa/Kanada) war ein kanadischer Politiker und Premierminister seines Landes. Als Politiker der Vereinten Nationen trug er wesentlich zur Beendigung der Sueskrise bei, und wurde 1957 dafür mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Pearson wird als Initiator der Friedenstruppen der Vereinten Nationen und als Vater der modernen Konzepte zur Friedenssicherung angesehen.
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