William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Born 1874, Died 1950

Born

• December 17, 1874, Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario

Education

• University of Toronto, B.A. 1895, LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897
• University of Chicago 1896 - 1897
• Harvard University, M.A. Political Economy 1898, Ph.D. 1909

Personal Life

• Bachelor

Occupations

• 1900 - 1908 Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour and editor of the Labour Gazette
• 1914 - 1918 Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation
• Author

Political Party

• Liberal
• 1919 - 1948 Party Leader

Constituencies

• 1908 - 1911 Waterloo North, Ontario
• 1919 - 1921 Prince, Prince Edward Island
• 1921 - 1925 York North, Ontario
• 1926 - 1945 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
• 1945 - 1949 Glengarry, Ontario

Other Ministries

• 1909 - 1911 Labour
• 1921 - 1930, 1935 - 1946 External Affairs

Political Record

• Industrial Disputes Investigation Act 1907
• Leader of the Opposition 1919 - 1921, 1926
• Old Age Pension 1926
• Appointed Cairine Wilson first woman senator 1930
• Leader of the Opposition 1930 - 1935
• Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations 1937
• Led Canada as Prime Minister throughout Second World War 1939 - 1945
• National Resources Mobilization Act 1940
• Unemployment Insurance 1940
• National Plebiscite on Conscription 1942
• Construction of the Alaska Highway 1942 - 1943
• Family Allowances Act 1944

Died

• July 22, 1950, Kingsmere, Quebec
• Grave site: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario

Source: Canada's Prime Ministers, 1867-1994. [Ottawa]: National Archives of Canada, c1994. 20 p.