Hugh Alexander MacKenzie (7 August 1882 – 8 January 1970) was a member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a farmer. He was first elected as a

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candidate at the

Lambton—Kent Lambton—Kent was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Kent, Lambton East and Lambton West ridings. It was ...

riding in the 1935 general election then re-elected as a

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candidate in

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. Returning to the Liberal party, MacKenzie was defeated at Lambton—Kent for one term by Robert James Henderson of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election. MacKenzie unseated Henderson in the next election in 1949 then was re-elected in

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. After his final federal term in office, the

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, MacKenzie was defeated by Ernest Campbell in the 1957 election.

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