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William Lyon Mackenzie King

1874 - 1950

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William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. King is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Great Depression and the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lyon Mackenzie King has received more than 2,332,809 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). William Lyon Mackenzie King is the 6,426th most popular politician (up from 7,172nd in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Canada (up from 109th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 6,426 out of 15,577. Before him are Wu Yi, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Liu Xiang, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ali Asadov, and Vologases II of Parthia. After him are Jean-Lambert Tallien, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Spyros Kyprianou, Antonius Felix, Emperor Xingzong of Liao, and Euthydemus I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 59. Before him are Lewis Hine, George Tupou II, Johannes Schober, Martin Lowry, Franz Schmidt, and Serge Koussevitzky. After him are Elsa Beskow, René-Louis Baire, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Ellery Harding Clark, Marguerite Long, and Isaac Carasso. Among people deceased in 1950, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 57. Before him are Vasil Kolarov, Fevzi Çakmak, Agnes Smedley, Karl Guthe Jansky, Rafael Sabatini, and Adam Rainer. After him are Henry L. Stimson, Nikolai Voznesensky, Walter Huston, Henry H. Arnold, Yvan Goll, and Kim Kyu-sik.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 97 out of 1,350. Before him are Norma Shearer (1902), Lester B. Pearson (1897), Rocky Johnson (1944), Jacques Villeneuve (1971), Joe Weider (1919), and Donna Strickland (1959). After him are Denny Doherty (1940), Ian Stevenson (1918), Steven Pinker (1954), David Easton (1917), Walter Huston (1883), and Conrad Bain (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King ranks 5. Before him are Justin Trudeau (1971), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), and Lester B. Pearson (1897). After him are Louis Riel (1844), Jean Chrétien (1934), Bonar Law (1858), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Paul Martin (1938), Brian Mulroney (1939), and Terry Sawchuk (1929).

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