RARE - Tommy Douglas for Prime Minister NDP/CCF circa 1960s

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RARE - Tommy Douglas for Prime Minister NDP/CCF circa 1960s:
$116.66

For sale is a rare, authentic Tommy Douglas pinback from the 1960s. The button reads \" Tommy Douglas for Prime Minister / Comme Premier Ministre \"

Based on the time Douglas was national NDP leader and teh pin back style, I\'d say this is circa 1960s

This is a great opportunity to get a collectiblefrom a Canadian icon and the father of medicare!

From Wikipedia:

Thomas Clement \"Tommy\" Douglas PC CC SOM (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 social-democratic government in North America, and it introduced the continent\'s first single-payer, universal health care program.

After setting up Saskatchewan\'s medicare program, Douglas stepped down as premier and ran to lead the newly formed federal New Democratic Party (NDP), the successor party of the National CCF. He was elected as its first federal leader in 1961. Although Douglas never led the party to government, through much of his tenure the party held the balance of power in the House of Commons. He was noted as being the main opposition to the imposition of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis. He resigned as leader the next year, but remained as a Member of Parliament until 1979.

Douglas was awarded many honorary degrees, and a foundation was named for him and his political mentor Major James Coldwell in 1971. In 1981, he was invested into the Order of Canada, and he became a member of Canada\'s Privy Council in 1984, two years before his death. In 2004, a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas \"The Greatest Canadian\", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey.