Hugh McKenzie (13 December 1853 – 4 August 1942) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to station manager John McKenzie and Elizabeth Clark, but migrated to

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as a child around 1857. He attended Scotch College and became a station overseer at

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. From 1874 he ran a store at

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. On 15 January 1878 he married Margaret Jane Mitchell, with whom he had four children. He became a successful businessman, partnering with

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in a stock and station agency and from 1894 running his own

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-based firm. From 1882 to 1924 he served on Echuca Borough Council, with two terms as mayor from 1886 to 1887 and from 1903 to 1904. In 1904 he was elected to the

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for Rodney. A Liberal, he was Minister of Lands from 1909 to 1913 and Minister of Railways and Water Supply from 1915 to 1917, when he lost his seat. McKenzie died in Echuca in 1942.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McKenzie, Hugh 1853 births 1942 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Australian stock and station agents