Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie V

President of the Wolfsberg Empire from 1890 to 1899
Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie V (January 24, 1840 - September 26, 1945) was the 11th President of the Wolfsberg Empire from January 1, 1890 to December 31, 1899. President MacKenzie was known for his losing war with Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem. MacKenzie's presidency is defined by his successful response to the Panic of 1893 with social and public works programs similar to the future New Deal in America, and his difficulty dealing with the War of Wolfsbergian Succession. MacKenzie's personal life was controversial, but he maintained popularity and respect amongst the Wolfsberg public and the government of Van Belleghem during his post-presidency. 
MacKenzie was born in 1840 Canada, to Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie (1790-1893) and Catherine Lavinia MacKenzie (1791-1904). He married his fourth cousin, Catherine Lachina MacKenzie, and he and Catherine had ten surviving children. MacKenzie worked for the Wolfsberg Ministry, he was at first, elected to the Wolfsberg Reichstag in 1859, and he served as Ministers of Infrastructure, National Security, and among other missions, and he was the Wolfsberg Ambassador to the Chawalliankalitan Empire from 1860 to 1899. In the 1899 Wolfsberg presidential election, he was elected President of the Wolfsberg Empire. He started his term on January 1, 1890. 
As President, MacKenzie prioritized advancements to education, infrastructure, bolstering immigration, and establishing peaceful and normalized relations with the Chawalliankalitans (now Chawosaurians). The Panic of 1893, which was the Great Depression at the time, struck the world hard. The MacKenzie administration responded hard to the Panic of 1893's impact on the Wolfsberg Empire, doing so proposing and establishing social programs for the disabled, the unemployed, and the poor, and public works projects to create jobs to help Wolfsbergians maintain their income during the depression, and to pay for all this, MacKenzie targeted the powerful elites of the Wolfsberg Empire, drawing the ire of Wolfsberg wealthy citizens, but he cared more about Wolfsbergians who had less. More crisis struck his presidency when Chancellor Jonathan Sarban Boleslaus III died in 1893, triggering the War of Wolfsbergian Succession between the Wolfsberg government and supporters of Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem. Wilhelmus' forces won the war right on time for MacKenzie's tenure to end, MacKenzie honored Wilhelmus' terms of surrender and handed the presidency over to him, while Wilhelmus honored MacKenzie's terms of surrender by maintaining his political relevance, Van Belleghem agreed to MacKenzie's demands because he needed guidance to govern the Wolfsberg Empire, and MacKenzie was willing to be a supportive guide. 
Throughout his post-presidency, MacKenzie and Van Belleghem became friends and political partners. Van Belleghem offered MacKenzie's son, Jack Leo MacKenzie, asylum to avoid Chawosaurian authorities for his role in the Naval rebellion against Chawosauria, Jack declined and decided to stay in Chawosauria to face his punishment, only to be pardoned by Chawosaurian Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson, therefore everything worked out for Jack, Lochlainn, and Wilhelmus. During the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the outbreak of the Cold War, MacKenzie worked tirelessly to help Van Belleghem bolster his public leadership qualities with tremendous success, then in 1945, MacKenzie died at age 105, and the Van Belleghem government honored him by bolstering his legacy, promoting his history and biography, and elevating him to political greatness amongst the Wolfsberg public. These efforts were successful, MacKenzie is widely viewed in a respectful manner. 
== Early Life and Family ==
Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie V was born on January 24, 1840, in New Glasgow, and the family moved to Halifax, in what was then British North America, a series of colonies in the western hemisphere as part of the British Empire after losing its thirteen colonies (now the United States of America) to the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century. Lochlainn's parents were Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie IV (1790-1893) and Catherine Lavinia MacKenzie (née Bengtsson, formerly Van Belleghem from her previous marriage; 1791-1904). Lochlainn had several siblings, most of them are half siblings from his parents' original marriages, all but two of Lochlainn's paternal half siblings were killed in an 1833 shipwreck, and his maternal half siblings were born in the Netherlands, his surviving half-siblings in general were: Ludovicus, Charlotte, and Joakim Van Belleghem and Nicholas and Jeanette MacKenzie, and the only biological sibling Lochlainn had shared the same parents with was Victoria Lynn MacKenzie, who was born a year after him. 
Lochlainn is of Scottish, Irish, and Swedish descent. On his father's side of the family, his paternal grandfather, Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie III (1760-1863), moved from Scotland to Atlantic Canada in 1785, and Lochlainn V's paternal grandmother, Ekaterina Valentinovna Bessonova MacKenzie, was from the Russian Empire, making Lochlainn also Russian. On his mother's side, his mother was from Sweden. Lochlainn struggled to keep up with his mother's Swedish accent in her attempt to speak English, so Lochlainn had to learn Swedish to talk to her, his sister Victoria had the same problem. Lochlainn lived in English Canada, in a time when tensions with French Canadians were high, Lochlainn's sister Victoria was assaulted by a group of French Canadian boys, and an angry Lochlainn wanted to beat them up, given how protective he was of her, but their father took care of the French Canadian boys, preventing Lochlainn from avenging his sister. Lochlainn stayed at Victoria's side to make sure she recovered safely, which she did. In 1848, Lochlainn met his fourth cousin, Catherine Lachina MacKenzie, at a family reunion in Amherst, and by 1855, after their first encounter since 1848, they became romantically involved, which was common amongst cousins in the western world at the time. After about two years of dating, Lochlainn and Catherine married on February 14, 1857, with his family universally celebrating the wedding and marriage as they are pleased to have the MacKenzie bloodline and surname kept in the family. Lochlainn and Catherine were financially effected by the Panic of 1857, they became poor and they had to migrate to St. John's in the British colony of Newfoundland at least try to establish themselves, and thanks to his grandfather's connections to the Wolfsberg Empire, MacKenzie was elected to the Wolfsberg Reichstag in 1859 and immediately placed in ministerial positions of Infrastructure, National Security, and other assignments. Lochlainn's new job helped the MacKenzies regained their income and they were able to move back to Nova Scotia, settling in Halifax, though not a very perfect home, living in a runned down lighthouse, but a good view of the coast and the lighthouse was fixed over the years into a good livable home. 
In the spring of 1859, Lochlainn and Catherine conceived their first child, nine months later, a boy was born on January 31, 1860, in St. John's, the boy was named after Lochlainn, Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie VI. Lochlainn and Catherine were young parents, they lacked experience in parenting. Another problem is that Lochlainn is always gone due to his new job, and Catherine could not do child-bearing and she required a nanny to help her. In the early 1860s, the United States of America was being torn apart by a brutal civil war over the legality of slavery, Lochlainn and Catherine were very vocal in their opposition to slavery, but they were unsure about the idea of citizenship and civil rights for black people, Lochlainn and Catherine didn't truly had any "high regards" for black people, the MacKenzie couple were skeptical of their intelligence, their willingness to work for a living, their health, and their ability to read and write, as a result, Lochlainn and Catherine avoided socializing with black people for the rest of their lives. In 1862, Catherine became pregnant again, and after nine months of pregnancy, Catherine gave birth to a girl on February 23, 1863, Catherine named her daughter Elizabeth Lachina MacKenzie. Into 1863, Catherine became pregnant again, and on June 12, 1864, Lochlainn and Catherine's third child and second son, Charles Leo MacKenzie, was born. 
Lochlainn and Catherine were struck by tragedy on April 30, 1866. After Catherine gave birth to her fourth child and second daughter, Charlotte Valeria MacKenzie, Charlotte died right before she was handed to Catherine, Catherine noticed the baby didn't appear to be breathing, and she panicked, and the nurse takes the deceased baby, leaving Catherine in tears. At Catherine's bedside, Lochlainn was shocked and devastated to have realized that Charlotte has died immediately after she was born. Lochlainn and Catherine requested Charlotte to be cremated and be placed in an urn and they placed the urn on the mantle of their fireplace with the name "Charlotte" on the urn. Lochlainn had nightmares of Charlotte's corpse during times of stress, forcing him to discover a fear worse than his own death: his own children's corpses, Lochlainn was so afraid of children's deaths that he irrationally freaks out when his children are in harms way. 
Catherine became pregnant again, another daughter was born, and this time, she was more healthier than Charlotte, strong enough to live past birth. Named Rosalynn Patricia MacKenzie. On July 1, 1867, three provinces of British North America: the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, were unified into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, giving birth to the Canada that presently exists. In 1870, all of British North America fell under Canadian control. However, Canada is still under predominate or partial control of the British government, for example, when Britain goes to war, Canadian men are called into service to fight for the British crown. In late winter 1869, Lochlainn and Catherine conceived another child, after a slightly longer-than-expected pregnancy, Lochlainn and Catherine had another boy, Jack Leo MacKenzie, Jack was born on Lochlainn's 30th birthday, Lochlainn jokingly said Jack should've been named after him. Catherine became pregnant again in 1871, a girl was born on February 24, 1872, named Jeanette Lachina MacKenzie. Another of Lochlainn and Catherine's children have died, Charles Leo MacKenzie (born 1864) died on May 28, 1872 at age 7, one of Lochlainn's worst fears were realized. Charles died due to being severely sick. Lochlainn was immensely struck with grief, having now lost two children. On March 23, 1875, another son, Reynold Leo MacKenzie, was born. June 4, 1876, another daughter, Abigail Evangeline MacKenzie, followed suit, being born after. On January 18, 1880, James Leo MacKenzie was also born to Lochlainn and Catherine. 
In 1880, Lochlainn and Catherine conceived their last child, and after a longer-than-expected pregnancy, Catherine gave birth, but she never got to name the child or even hold the child because giving birth to 11 children have really taken a severe toll on Catherine. Right after Catherine gave birth to her last child, she suffered from eclampsia and she died on March 11, 1881. 24 years of marriage have come to an end between Lochlainn and Catherine, Lochlainn was now a widower and a single father of nine surviving children, two of them are full grown adults with no experience raising children. Lochlainn's youngest child was a girl and he named her after Catherine, she was named Catherine Lachina MacKenzie Jr, though the Jr part is never used for clear reasons. Lochlainn was devastated to have lost two children and now a wife of 24 years, now a widowed father of nine. After Catherine died, Lochlainn tried dating, but he found no connection in any of his post-marital dates as he had with Catherine. Lochlainn decided that dating was not for him and he decided also that he would not remarry, leaving his young children without a mother. Due to Lochlainn's profession, which required him to be in Austria-Hungary, he couldn't raise his children alone and that got him worried for them. Lochlainn's children wanted to live with him in Wolfsberg, but he said no, Lochlainn told his son Jack that the Duchy of Carinthia was "a whole other planet", Lochlainn received an offer from Victoria, that she could raise the children, Lochlainn was at first unsure because Victoria is his sister and he trusts her, but she lives with her husband and children in Britain, and his children would have to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to Victoria and Phineas. Ultimately, Lochlainn agreed because due to Canada being part of the British Empire, moving his children from Canada to Britain isn't too hard. 
Lochlainn moved his children from Halifax to Sheffield, England, for them to live with their aunt Victoria and uncle Phineas, at the same time their cousin Garfield Lucas Webster was moving to America in 1883. 
== Wolfsberg Ministry ==
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== Presidency of Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie V ==
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== Post-Presidency and Advisory to the Van Belleghem Regime ==
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== Death and Funeral ==
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