William Lyon Mackenzie King

10th Prime Minister of Canada

December 29, 1921 - June 28, 1926
September 25, 1926 - August 7, 1930
October 23, 1935 - November 15, 1948

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 Status

• Bachelor

Professional Life

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

Died

• July 22, 1950, Kingsmere, Quebec

Buried

• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario

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 Dispute 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