# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-pickersgill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:08.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-pickersgill"
name: "Jack Pickersgill"
slug: "jack-pickersgill"
description: "John Whitney Pickersgill was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was Clerk of the Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district and serving in Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pickersgill resigned from Parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. He wrote several books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa."
tagline: "Canadian federal politician based out of Newfoundland (1905-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Pickersgill_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1905-06-23"
deathDate: "1997-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             6.470588235294117
  historical:           5.674838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pickersgill"
    title: "Jack Pickersgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "چاك پيكيرسجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pickersgill"
    title: "John Pickersgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Пикерсгрилл, Джек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pickersgill"
    title: "Jack Pickersgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジャック・ピッカースギル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335978"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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