Lester B. Pearson

The Right Honourable Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, CC, OM, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957 and served as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, to April 20, 1968.

Supreme Court Appointments

Pearson appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada:

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• Robert Taschereau (Chief Justice) - (appointed a Puisne Justice by William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1940)
• John Robert Cartwright (Chief Justice) - (appointed a Puisne Justice by Louis St. Laurent in 1949)
• Wishart Flett Spence
• Louis-Philippe Pigeon