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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 Liberal 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 elections, King works as a consultant in industrial relations, as well as for the Rockefeller Foundation. He publishes Industry and Humanity in 1918, a book in which he presents his vision of a government which, acting in the name of society as a whole, takes an active part in the peaceful solution of
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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.
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| Preceded by | R. B. Bennett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Louis St. Laurent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office September 25, 1926 – August 7, 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | George V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Preceded by | Arthur Meighen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In office December 29, 1921 – June 28, 1926 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | George V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Governor General | The Lord Byng of Vimy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Arthur Meighen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Arthur Meighen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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