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Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, (20 October 1904 � 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian democratic socialist politician.
As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first social-democratic government in North America and introduced free, universal healthcare to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, Douglas was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971.
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