# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-mackenzie
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:27:29.096Z

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name: "Alexander Mackenzie"
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description: "Canada's second prime minister came to power on the back of a corruption scandal, then presided over the creation of the Indian Act and the residential school system — institutions that would shape the country's relationship with Indigenous peoples for more than a century."
tagline: "2nd Prime Minister of Canada (1822-1892)"
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birthDate: "1822-01-28"
deathDate: "1892-04-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Logierait, Scotland, in 1822, Mackenzie left school at 13 after his father died and apprenticed as a stonemason. He immigrated to Canada at 19, built a successful masonry business in Ontario, and turned his attention to Reform politics, editing the Lambton Shield before winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly in 1862. Elected to the new House of Commons in 1867, he became Liberal leader in mid-1873 and prime minister months later when John A. Macdonald resigned over the Pacific Scandal. His government won decisively in 1874 on the strength of his working-class origins and democratic reputation. As prime minister, he established the Supreme Court and Royal Military College, created the District of Keewatin to manage western expansion, but faltered on the transcontinental railway and couldn't contain the fallout from the Panic of 1873. Voters delivered a landslide defeat in 1878. He stayed in Parliament until a stroke killed him in 1892.