Willis Merwyn Johnson (May 9, 1923 – July 14, 2019), better known as Merv Johnson, was a Canadian farmer and politician in
Saskatchewan.
Johnson was the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; french: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC); from 1955 the Social Democratic Party of Canada (''french: Parti social démocratique du Canada''), was a federal democratic socialism, democra ...
Member for Parliament
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for
Kindersley, Saskatchewan. He first won his seat in the
House of Commons of Canada
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in the
1953 federal election and was re-elected in
1957
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before being defeated in the
1958 general election in the
Diefenbaker landslide. He attempted to re-enter the House of Commons in several subsequent elections as a
New Democrat but was unsuccessful.
In 1977, Johnson was appointed to serve as Saskatchewan's
agent-general in
London, England. He also served for several years as president of the
Saskatchewan CCF-NDP and was president of the federal
New Democratic Party of Canada
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from 1963 to 1965. He died in Victoria, British Columbia in July 2019 at the age of 96.
Willis Merwyn (Merv) Johnson obituary
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1923 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Canadian politicians
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan
Presidents of the New Democratic Party of Canada