William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950) was Prime Minister of Canada for 22 years—from 1921 to 1930 (except for a few months in 1926), and from 1935 to 1948. His political prowess helped him to preserve the unity of the country and his party, when both were threatened during his mandate by some of the most dramatic times in Canadian history, including the Depression of the 1930s and the Second World War. He was an extremely skilled politician, but in his private life, he was a man with unique, a