THE POLITICAL POWER

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

BORN

• 17 December 1874, Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario

EDUCATION

• University of Toronto (B.A. 1895, LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897)
• Harvard University (M.A. Economics 1898, Ph.D. 1909)
• University of Chicago

PERSONAL STATUS

• Bachelor

OCCUPATION

• 1900 - 1908 Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour
• 1914 Appointed head of the Department of Industrial Relations, Rockfeller Foundation
• 1917 - 1919 Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation
• Author

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
• Balfour Report 1926
• Old Age Pension 1926
• Appointed Cairine Wilson first woman senator 1930
• National Resources Mobilization Act 1940
• Unemployment Insurance 1940
• National Plebiscite on Conscription 1942
• Construction of the Alaska Highway 1942 - 1943
• Family Allowances Act 1944
• Led Canada as Prime Minister throughout Second World War 1939 - 1945

DIED

• 22 July 1950, Kingsmere, Quebec

BURIED

• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario