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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{other people||Daniel McKenzie (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix   =The Honourable
|name               =Daniel Duncan McKenzie 
|honorific-suffix   =[[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]]  
|image              =DanielDuncanMcKenzie.jpg
|imagesize          =
|birth_date   ={{Birth date|1859|01|8|mf=y}}
|birth_place = Lake Ainslie, [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton]], [[Nova Scotia]]
|death_date  ={{death date and age|mf=yes|1927|06|08|1859|01|08}}
|death_place =[[Halifax (former city)|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], Canada
|nationality  =Canadian 
| office2          = Interim [[Liberal Party of Canada|Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada]]
| term_start2      = February 17, 1919
| term_end2        = August 7, 1919
| predecessor2     = [[Wilfrid Laurier]]
| successor2       = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|W. L. Mackenzie King]]
| office          = [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| predecessor     = [[Wilfrid Laurier]]
| successor       = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|W. L. Mackenzie King]]
| term_start      = February 17, 1919 
| term_end        = August 7, 1919
|party        =[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|otherparty   =[[Laurier Liberal]]
|spouse       = 
|relations    = 
|children     =
|residence    = 
|alma_mater   =
|profession   =Lawyer, judge
|religion     =
}}
'''Daniel Duncan McKenzie''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|KC}} (January 8, 1859 &ndash; June 8, 1927) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] lawyer, judge, and [[politician]].

==Life and career==
Born in Lake Ainslie, [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton]], [[Nova Scotia]], the son of Duncan and Jessie (McMillan) McKenzie, McKenzie was educated at the Public Schools and at the Sydney Academy. He became a barrister and attorney-at-law, practicing in [[North Sydney, Nova Scotia]]. He served was Commissioner of
Schools for Cape Breton and was elected ten times to the Municipal Council of North Sydney, serving as Mayor for five years. He was elected to the [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly]] in 1900 as a [[Nova Scotia Liberal Party|Liberal]], and again at the general elections of [[1901 Nova Scotia general election|1901]].<ref name="Bio">{{cite book|title=A cyclopædia of Canadian biography|year=1919|url=https://archive.org/details/cyclopdiaofcan00charuoft|publisher=Hunter-Rose Company}}</ref>

He was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] for the electoral district of [[North Cape Breton and Victoria]] in the [[1904 Canadian federal election|1904 federal election]]. A Liberal, he resigned in 1906 when he was appointed a Judge of District No. 7, County Court of Nova Scotia. He retired in 1908 and was re-elected in the [[1908 Canadian federal election|1908 federal election]]. He was re-elected in [[1911 Canadian federal election|1911]], [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917]], and [[1921 Canadian federal election|1921]].<ref name="Bio"/>

He became [[Interim leader (Canada)|interim leader]] of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]] in 1919, following the death of former Canadian Prime minister Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]] on February 17, 1919. He held that position, and consequently  the position of [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]], until August 7 of the same year, when the leadership of the party was won by [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|Mackenzie King]] at the first [[1919 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|Liberal leadership convention]]. McKenzie was also a candidate at that convention, placing fourth. He later served as [[Solicitor General of Canada|Solicitor General]] during King's first term in office.<ref name="Bio"/>

In 1923, he resigned his seat in the House of Commons after he was named a puisne judge in the [[Supreme Court of Nova Scotia]]. McKenzie served on the bench until his death at the age of 68 in [[Halifax (former city)|Halifax, Nova Scotia]].<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Archival records
| title                 = Daniel Duncan MacKenzie fonds
| location              = [[Beaton Institute]]
| inventory_number      = MG 9.52
| description_URL       = https://beatoninstitute.com/mackenzie-daniel-duncan
| dates                 = 1886-1949
| access_conditions     = open
}}
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1374}}

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