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Person
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MacKenzie, Arthur Whittier
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Description area
Dates of existence
1898-1986
History
Arthur Whittier MacKenzie was a politician and Liberal member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Born on 15 June 1898 in Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, he graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1915 before joining the Army and serving overseas during the First World War. He remained in the Army through the Second World World War, retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. From 1945-1956 he represented Guysborough as a Liberal MLA, serving in the province's Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Lands and Forests from 1945-1954, and as Minister of Highways and Public Works from 1954-1956. He died in 1986.