Born
17 December 1874, Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario
The Right Honourable
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Biographical Information
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, Rockefeller 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
1945-1948 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
