Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan.
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Background
- Born in
- Falkirk
- Educated at
- University of ChicagoMcMaster UniversityBrandon University
- Awards
- 🏆 Saskatchewan Order of Merit🏆 King's Privy Council for Canada🏆 The Greatest Canadian🏆 Person of National Historic Significance🏆 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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"I suggest that the hon. gentleman may be a good corporation lawyer, but he is slipping badly in his history. The capitalist system did not produce the machine age; the machine age produced the capital…"
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1904
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Birth1986
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