Mackenzie king brief biography

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    Canada in the Second World War

    W.L. Mackenzie King

    William Lyon Mackenzie King, born in Berlin (now Kitchener, Ontario) December 17, 1874, died in Kingsmere (Quebec) July 22, 1950. Leader of the frikostig Party from 1919 to 1948, Prime Minister of Canada from 1921 to 1926, from 1926 to 1930, and from 1935 to 1948.

    Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1941.
    National Archives of Canada, C-042725.

    The son of a lawyer, King was the grandson, on his mother’s side, of William Lyon Mackenzie, one of the leaders of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada. He studied law and economics at the University of Toronto (graduated in 1895), then at the University of Chicago (M.A., 1897). He went on to graduate studies at Harvard. In 1900, he becomes Deputy Minister in the newly created Department of Labour and entered the House of Commons in 1908 as Liberal Member of Parliament for North York. The following year, Sir Wilfrid Laurier appoints him Minister of Labour. Defeated in the 1911 ele

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    William Lyon Mackenzie King

    Canadian statesman and politician (1874–1950)

    Not to be confused with William Lyon Mackenzie, King's grandfather.

    The Right Honourable

    William Lyon Mackenzie King

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    King in 1942

    In office
    October 23, 1935 – November 15, 1948
    Monarchs
    Governors General
    Preceded byR. B. Bennett
    Succeeded byLouis St. Laurent
    In office
    September 25, 1926 – August 7, 1930
    MonarchGeorge V
    Governors General
    Preceded byArthur Meighen
    Succeeded byR. B. Bennett
    In office
    December 29, 1921 – June 28, 1926
    MonarchGeorge V
    Governor GeneralThe Lord Byng of Vimy
    Preceded byArthur Meighen
    Succeeded byArthur Meighen

    Senior political offices

    In office
    August 7, 1930 – October 22, 1935
    Prime MinisterR. B. Bennett
    Preceded byR. B. Bennett
    Succeeded byR. B. Bennett
    In office
    June 29, 1926 – Septemb

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    William Lyon Mackenzie King

    (b. 17 Dec. 1874, d. 22 July 1950).

    Prime Minister of Canada 1921–6, 1926–30, 1935–48

    Early career

    Grandson of the anti-establishment rebel William Lyon Mackenzie (b. 1795, d. 1861), he was born at Berlin (Kitchener, Ontario) and studied at the Universities of Toronto, Chicago, and Harvard, graduating in economics. Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour in 1900, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1908, and in 1909 became Minister of Labour under Laurier. He failed to be re-elected in 1911 and 1917, during which time he became a forceful advocate of government intervention in industrial relations, as a mediator between employers and trade unions. He remained active within the Liberal Party, and in 1919 became party leader. He narrowly won the 1921 elections and reduced tariffs to gain the support of the Progressive Party. When he lost the latter's support in 1926 the Conservative Meighen formed a brief government, but Mackenzie Ki

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