Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau was born Oct. ... His father, Charles-Emile Trudeau, was a farmers son who became a lawyer and the owner of a string of gas stations. ... He died two years later when Trudeau was 15. ... Trudeau had an older sister, Suzette, and a younger brother, Charles. ... Trudeau, who always had a taste for glamorous women, intrigued the country by marrying Margaret Sinclair, a woman half his age and fathering three sons, Justin, Michel, and Sacha, two of them born on Christmas Day. Pierre and Margaret separated in May 1977 and divorced in 1983. Trudeau graduated with honours in law from the University of Montreal and was called to the bar in 1944. Like most Quebec intellectuals of the time, Trudeau opposed the recruitment of Canadians for overseas service and he did not fight in the Second World War -- a fact embroidered upon and used against him later by political opponents -- although he did serve in a reserve unit in Montreal.