William Lyon Mackenzie King    Liberal

wlmking.jpg (28288 bytes)Longest time being P.M. -21 years 4 1/2 months from December 29, 1921 to June 8, 1926, from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930 and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948. Longest total duration as PM in the whole Commonwealth. First elected to Parliament in 1908. Won 7 elections and was in the House of Commons for 32 years.  click picture to enlarge

Feb. 5, 1930- Prime Minister Mackenzie King appoints the first woman, Cairine Wilson, 45, to the Senate.

Terms: Dec. 29, 1921-June 28, 1926

Sept.25,1926-Aug.7, 1930

Oct. 23, 1935-Nov. 15, 1948

Headlines: King's Grits crush Tories Oct. 14, 1935
The Liberals under William Lyon Mackenzie King annihilate the Tory government of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.

King meets Hitler- June 30, 1937- Prime Minister King concludes a visit with Hitler and other German leaders saying he has successfully promoted "understanding, friendship, and goodwill."

Canada at war- Sept. 10, 1939- Canada, allied with Britain and France, declares war on Germany.

Woodside National Historic Park in Kitchener, Ontario was the boyhood home of King. 

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On the $50.00 bill. 

His Diary- excellent site

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His statue on Parliament Hill

Birth: Dec. 17, 1874 Kitchener  (Berlin), Ontario

 

 

Age on becoming PM: 47

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

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queconf.jpg (61607 bytes) US President F.D. Roosevelt, MacKenzie King, and Britain's Winstom Churchill at Quebec, August 1943. See: Quebec Conference

 

 

 

Death: at age 75,July 22, 1950, of pneumonia. Buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto See: Grave sites of the Prime Ministers

 

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