Seymour James Farmer was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
19 Facts About Seymour Farmer
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Seymour Farmer served as Winnipeg MLA from 1922 to 1949.
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Seymour Farmer was the leader of the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1935 to 1947.
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Seymour Farmer served as a cabinet minister in Manitoba's World War II coalition government.
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Seymour Farmer moved to Canada in 1900 and worked as a railway clerk.
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Seymour Farmer became an accountant for the International Grain Company in 1913 and retained that position until 1927.
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Seymour Farmer withdrew from the contest so as not to split the anti-conscriptionist vote between a Laurier Liberal and himself.
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Seymour Farmer later served as a councillor in 1928 and 1929, and again in the 1930s.
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Seymour Farmer was elected to the provincial legislature for Winnipeg in the 1922 election, along with fellow ILP members Fred Dixon, John Queen and William Ivens.
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Seymour Farmer was re-elected in the 1927 and 1932 elections.
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Seymour Farmer responded by writing pamphlet "Social Credit or Social Ownership".
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At the start of World War II, Seymour Farmer approved of federal CCF leader Woodsworth's pacifist stance in the House of Commons of Canada.
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Seymour Farmer endorsed the CCF's call to conscript "wealth rather than men" for the war effort.
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The Conservatives and Social Credit joined the government in 1940; despite opposition from David Lewis, Seymour Farmer convinced the CCF to do the same.
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Seymour Farmer argued that Bracken was willing to adopt labour-friendly policies, and that the CCF would benefit more from joining government than from being the sole group in opposition.
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Seymour Farmer argued that an all-party government would defer the next provincial election for a year, ll and allow the CCF more time to organize.
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Seymour Farmer resigned from cabinet in December 1942, and the CCF formally left the government the following year.
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Seymour Farmer continued as party leader through the election of 1945.
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Seymour Farmer did not contest the election of 1949 and died on January 16,1951.