Lester B. Pearson - Nobel Peace Prize — 1957
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Lester B. Pearson

Prize
Nobel Peace Prize — 1957
for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis
Citizenship
Canada Canada
Languages
English
date of birth
4/23/1897
place of birth
Toronto
date of death
12/27/1972
place of death
Ottawa
Lived
75 years

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position held
  • Chancellor of Carleton University
    • start time: 1969
    • end time: 1972
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • end time: 6/24/1968
    • start time: 11/8/1965
  • Prime Minister of Canada
    • end time: 4/20/1968
    • start time: 4/22/1963
  • Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
    • end time: 4/6/1968
    • start time: 1/16/1958
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • start time: 4/8/1963
    • end time: 11/7/1965
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • end time: 6/17/1962
    • start time: 3/31/1958
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • end time: 4/7/1963
    • start time: 6/18/1962
  • Leader of the Official Opposition
    • end time: 4/22/1963
    • start time: 1/16/1958
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • end time: 6/26/1949
    • start time: 10/25/1948
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • start time: 6/27/1949
    • end time: 8/9/1953
  • Canadian ambassador to the United States
    • end time: 1946
    • start time: 1944
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • start time: 8/10/1953
    • end time: 6/9/1957
  • President of the United Nations General Assembly
  • Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
  • member of the House of Commons of Canada
    • end time: 3/30/1958
    • start time: 6/10/1957
member of
  • Board of Governors of Carleton University
    • end time: 1972
    • start time: 1969
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • ice hockey player
  • writer
  • military personnel
  • senior civil servant
  • politician
  • diplomat
  • ambassador
  • historian
  • university teacher
employer
  • University of Toronto
  • Carleton University
  • United Nations
work location
  • Ottawa
educated at
  • St John's College
  • Victoria College
  • Peterborough Collegiate
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