David Lewis, Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1981)

David Lewis (Canadian politician)

Canadian lawyer and politician (1909–1981)

David Lewis was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950 and one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. In 1962, he was elected as the Member…