![]() ![]() ![]() In 1900, he became deputy minister of the Canadian government's new Department of Labour. He later obtained a PhD – the only Canadian prime minister to have done so. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history.īorn in Berlin ( now Kitchener), Ontario, King studied law and political economy in the 1890s and became concerned with issues of social welfare. He played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state and established Canada's international reputation as a middle power fully committed to world order. King is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Great Depression and the Second World War. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (Decem– July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario ![]()
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