Thomas Mackenzie

Thomas Mackenzie ( born March 10, 1854 in Midlothian, Scotland, † February 14, 1930 in Dunedin ) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party. He was in 1912 briefly Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Mackenzie's family emigrated in 1858, when he was 4 years old, from Scotland to New Zealand. From 1894 to 1896, he tried to find an overland route to the Dusky Sound, a fjord on the southwestern tip of the South Island. He explored and mapped the area.

As a politician Mackenzie was first Minister of Agriculture under Joseph Ward, as the Liberal Party lost its majority in the elections in 1911, the situation seemed deadlocked. After Ward resigned Mackenzie took over the office, but remained only a few months before opposition leader William Massey came to power.

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