William Lyon Mackenzie King Siblings: All About Isabel, Janet and Dougall Macdougall King
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William Lyon Mackenzie King was a Canadian statesman who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada and remains the longest-serving holder of that office.
Born on December 17, 1874, in Berlin, Ontario, he was the son of John King, a lawyer, and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, the daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
King never married and lived a private life marked by strong family attachments and a deep interest in spiritualism.