Hugh McKenzie (Australian politician)

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

He was born in Sutherlandshire to station manager John McKenzie and Elizabeth Clark, but migrated to Victoria as a child around 1857.

On 15 January 1878 he married Margaret Jane Mitchell, with whom he had four children.

He became a successful businessman, partnering with John Chanter in a stock and station agency and from 1894 running his own Echuca-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.