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A highly successful novelist and historian, John     Buchan was the first of his profession to become Governor General of     Canada. A man of many talents, he was also a lawyer, a diplomat, a     war correspondent, a publisher and a member of the House of Commons     for the Scottish Universities seat.
Born in     Perth, Scotland, August 26th, 1975, the son of a clergyman, Buchan     enjoyed a distinguished academic career. But he was first and     foremost a writer and prior to coming to Canada, he had earned an     enviable reputation as an author. He is known for such mystery     novels as "The Dancing Floor", and "The Thirty-nine Steps" which was     made into a highly successful motion picture.
On his appointment as Governor General in 1935, he     became Baron Tweedsmuir, taking his name for the ancestral home in     Scotland, the scene of many happy boyhood memories.
While in office, he travelled widely and     frequently across Canada and undertook the longest single trip of     any Governor General to date, travelling 12,000 miles across Canada,     down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Circle and deep into isolated     communities along the North Pacific coast of B.C..
In 1936 he was made Honorary President of the     Canadian Authors' Association and he instituted the annual Governor     General's awards for Canadian literature. Though many of his     predecessors had visited American Presidents informally, in 1937     Lord Tweedsmuir paid the first state visit to the White House. He     was the guest of the Roosevelts and addressed the U.S. Senate. Poor     health forced him to undergo medical treatment in England from     August to October 1938, following which he resumed his vice-regal     duties. In 1939 he entertained King George VI and Queen Elizabeth     during their historic tour of Canada and he United States.
His term of office was to expire in November 1940,     but he died on February 11th in a Montreal hospital while undergoing     surgery for a head injury sustained in a fall. He was accorded a     state funeral in Ottawa and his ashes were returned to his homeland.
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