Hugh McKenzie (Manitoba politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Hugh McKenzie (Manitoba politician)
- Hugh McKenzie (January 20, 1870 – 1957) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1936.The son of John McKenzie and Eliza Hogan, McKenzie was educated at Lovant, and served sixteen years as a municipal councillor and reeve in Deloraine, Manitoba.
- In 1895, he married Elfreda Potter.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 provincial election as a Progressive, defeating Conservative candidate A.G.
- Hainsworth by 160 votes.
- The Progressives won the election, and McKenzie served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's government. In 1932, the Progressives formed an alliance with the provincial Liberal Party.
- Government members became known as "Liberal-Progressives", and it was under this banner that McKenzie was re-elected in the 1932 campaign.
- He did not seek re-election in 1936.
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