Frederick Donald MacKenzie explained

Frederick Donald MacKenzie
Constituency Mp:Neepawa
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Thomas Gerow Murphy
Successor:John Bracken
Term Start:1935
Term End:1945
Birth Date:18 December 1882
Birth Place:Presqu'île, Ontario
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario
Spouse:Wilma Christina Robertson
(m. 12 March 1921)
Occupation:School principal, teacher

Frederick Donald MacKenzie, (December 18, 1882  - October 13, 1970) was a soldier, teacher and Member of Parliament in Canada.

Mackenzie was born in Presqu'île, Ontario and was educated at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute and Queen's University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts.

He served during the First World War with the Queen's University Hospital Unit from 1915 to 1916 in Egypt and the Dardanelles. He was subsequently a lieutenant with the Canadian Field Artillery from 1916 to 1919.

Following the war, he returned to Canada and settled in Neepawa, Manitoba, where he worked as a teacher and became a school principal.

In the 1935 federal election he ran as a Liberal candidate in Neepawa and was returned to the House of Commons of Canada. He was re-elected in the 1940 federal election but defeated in the 1945 election by the Progressive Conservative leader and former Manitoba Premier John Bracken.

He died in 1970 in Ottawa.[1]

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  1. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/John-W-Wilson-Ajax/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0695.html The Wilson Family: Information about Frederick Donald MacKenzie