Here\u0027s the evidence that two bachelor prime ministers were gay men forced by the era to conceal their sexuality
Even today, a spouse is a virtual necessity for anyone looking to lead a Western democracy. France has never once elected a president who didn’t have a live-in romantic partner. The United States’ last bachelor president was James Buchanan, a one-termer elected in 1857. And the United Kingdom has had only four bachelor prime ministers in three centuries.
Mackenzie King dominated Canadian politics for most of the early 20th Century, serving a total of 21 years as prime minister in non-consecutive terms. And for five years in the 1930s, King’s reign was interrupted by Conservative Leader R.B. Bennett. The 1992 biography The Loner sums up Bennett’s personal life. He never owned a home in Canada, instead living out of hotels in Calgary and Ottawa. Awho held several of his own cabinet posts, his limited social life revolved mostly around the Methodist Church. He’s the only prime minister buried outside of Canada; not long after his 1935 electoral defeat he fled the country for Britain and never looked back.
Homosexuality in Canada was illegal up until the 1960s, and any dalliance in what was defined as “gross indecency” was enough to kill a career.
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