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John Diefenbaker
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13th Prime Minister of Canada (1895-1979)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- One Canada Memoirs 1962
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Gothenburg Municipality
Discography
- Strike the Match2000
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,531x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Well, Mr. Prime Minister, I can't waste any more time on you. I must get back to work.”
- “Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
- “I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.”
- “I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.”
- “I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.”
- “Everyone is against me - except the people!”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- Governors general
- Vincent Massey Georges Vanier
- Preceded by
- Louis St. Laurent
- Succeeded by
- Lester B. Pearson
- Prime minister
- Himself
- Born
- John George Diefenbaker , ( 1895-09-18 ) September 18, 1895, Neustadt, Ontario , Canada
- Died
- August 16, 1979 (1979-08-16) (aged 83), Ottawa , Ontario, Canada
- Resting place
- Outside Diefenbaker Canada Centre , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Party
- Progressive Conservative
- Spouses
- Edna Brower ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 ; died 1951 ) Olive Palmer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; died 1976 )
- Alma mater
- University of Saskatchewan ( BA , MA , LLB )
- Occupation
- Politician lawyer
- Allegiance
- Canada
- Branch service
- Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Years of service
- 1916–1917
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Unit
- 196th Battalion
- Battles wars
- World War I
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
John George Diefenbaker (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of the seats in the House of Commons.
Diefenbaker was born in the small town of Neustadt in Southwestern Ontario. In 1903, his family migrated west to the portion of the North-West Territories that would soon become the province of Saskatchewan. He grew up in the province and was interested in politics from a young age. After service in World War I, Diefenbaker became a noted criminal defence lawyer. He contested elections through the 1920s and 1930s with little success until he was finally elected to the House of Commons in 1940. Diefenbaker was repeatedly a candidate for the party leadership. He gained that position in 1956, on his third attempt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Diefenbaker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.