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Pearson switches from diplomat to Canadian politician
Ottawa AP reports Lester B. Pearson, age 65, shifts from a noted diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate to campaign politics. Once U N General Assembly president and wartime humanitarian, Pearson builds stamina in campaign towns after losses to John Diefenbaker in 1958 and gains in 1962. Born April 23 1897 in Toronto, he served WWI, studied at Toronto and Oxford, taught at Toronto, entered diplomacy in 1928, and has been in parliament since 1948 with a family including wife Maryon and two children.
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Mike” Pearson
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