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Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas
, (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Canadian
social democratic
politician and
Baptist
minister. He was elected to the
Canadian House of Commons
in 1935 as a member of the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
(CCF). He left
federal politics
to become the
Saskatchewan CCF
's leader and then the
seventh
Premier of Saskatchewan
from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first
democratic socialist
government in
North America
, and it introduced the continent's first
single-payer
, universal
health care program
.
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