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Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario. Political party. Liberal. Education. Signature. William Lyon Mackenzie King. OM, CMG, PC December 1. July 2. 2, 1. 95. Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader, as the Prime Minister of Canada, from the 1. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada in 1. He is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World War 1. Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain while boosting the economy and maintaining home front morale. A Liberal with 2. Canadian history. Trained in law and social work, he was keenly interested in the human condition as a boy, his motto was Help those that cannot help themselves, and played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state. King acceded to the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1. Taking the helm of a party bitterly torn apart during the First World War, he reconciled factions, unifying the Liberal Party and leading it to victory in the 1. His party was out of office during the harshest days of the Great Depression in Canada, 1. He personally handled complex relations with the Prairie Provinces, while his top aides Ernest Lapointe and Louis St. Laurent skillfully met the demands of French Canadians. During the Second World War, he carefully avoided the battles over conscription, patriotism and ethnicity that had divided Canada so deeply in the First World War. Though few major policy innovations took place during his premiership, he was able to synthesize and pass a number of measures that had reached a level of broad national support. Scholars attribute Kings long tenure as party leader to his wide range of skills that were appropriate to Canadas needs. He understood the workings of capital and labour. Keenly sensitive to the nuances of public policy, he was a workaholic with a shrewd and penetrating intelligence and a profound understanding of the complexities of Canadian society. A modernizing technocrat who regarded managerial mediation as essential to an industrial society, he wanted his Liberal Party to represent liberal corporatism to create social harmony. King worked to bring compromise and harmony to many competing and feuding elements, using politics and government action as his instrument. He led his party for 2. Canadas international reputation as a middle power fully committed to world order. Kings biographers agree on the personal characteristics that made him distinctive. He lacked the charisma of such contemporaries as Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, or Charles de Gaulle. He lacked a commanding presence or oratorical skill his best writing was academic, and did not resonate with the electorate. Cold and tactless in human relations, he had many political allies but very few close personal friends. He never married and lacked a hostess whose charm could substitute for his chill. He kept secret his beliefs in spiritualism and use of mediums to stay in contact with departed associates and particularly with his mother, and allowed his intense spirituality to distort his understanding of Adolf Hitler throughout the late 1. A survey of scholars in 1. Macleans magazine ranked King first among all Canadas prime ministers, ahead of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. As historian Jack Granatstein notes, the scholars expressed little admiration for King the man but offered unbounded admiration for his political skills and attention to Canadian unity. On the other hand, political scientist Ian Stewart in 2. Liberal activists have but a dim memory of him. Early life, family, and religioneditKing was born in Berlin, Ontario now known as Kitchener, to John King and Isabella Grace Mackenzie. His maternal grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1. His father was a lawyer, and later a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. King had three siblings. Note 1 He attended Berlin Central School now Suddaby Public School and Berlin High School now Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. Tutors were hired to teach him more politics, science, math, English and French. His father was a lawyer with a struggling practice in a small city, and never enjoyed financial security. His parents lived a life of shabby gentility, employing servants and tutors they could scarcely afford, although their financial situation improved somewhat following a move to Toronto around 1. King lived with them for several years in a duplex located in a then respectable neighborhood, Beverley Street, while studying at the University of Toronto. King became a lifelong practising Presbyterian with a dedication to applying Christian virtues to social issues in the style of the Social Gospel. He never favoured socialism. UniversityeditKing earned five university degrees. He obtained three degrees from the University of Toronto B. A. 1. 89. 5, LL. B. M. A. 1. 89. 7 he earned his LL. B. in 1. 89. 6 from Osgoode Hall Law School. Note 21. While studying in Toronto he met a wide circle of friends, many of whom became prominent. He was an early member and officer of the Kappa Alpha Society, which included a number of these individuals two future Ontario Supreme Court Justices and the future Chairman of the University itself. It encouraged debate on political ideas. He also met Arthur Meighen, a future political rival the two men did not get on especially well from the start. King was especially concerned with issues of social welfare and was influenced by the settlement house movement pioneered by Toynbee Hall in London, England. He played a central role in fomenting a students strike at the university in 1. He was in close touch, behind the scenes, with Vice Chancellor William Mulock, for whom the strike provided a chance to embarrass his rivals Chancellor Edward Blake and President James Loudon. King failed to gain his immediate objective, a teaching position at the University, but earned political credit with Mulock, the man who would invite him to Ottawa and make him a deputy minister only five years later. While studying at the University of Toronto, King also contributed to the campus newspaper The Varsity. After studying at the University of Chicago and working with Jane Addams at her settlement house, Hull House, King proceeded to Harvard University. He earned an M. A. Harvard in 1. 89. In 1. 90. 9, Harvard granted him a Ph. D for a dissertation on Oriental Immigration to Canada. It was a report he had written while he was Deputy Minister of Labour in 1.