# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:26:10.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-benson"
name: "Edgar Benson"
slug: "edgar-benson"
description: "Edgar John \"Ben\" Benson was a Canadian politician, businessman, diplomat, and university professor. He held four cabinet posts, most notably that of Minister of Finance under Pierre Trudeau, where he was instrumental in reforming Canada's income tax law. He was described as \"Pierre Trudeau's unflappable finance minister, the pipe-smoking financial wizard who raised the ire of corporate Canada in the 1970s by bringing in a capital gains tax.\""
tagline: "Canadian politician (1923-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar_John_Benson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1923-05-28"
deathDate: "2011-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0.7878787878787878
  historical:           4.806408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إدغار بنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ادجار بنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Benson"
    title: "Edgar Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Benson"
    title: "Edgar Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Benson"
    title: "Edgar Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1226066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump