Woodrow Lloyd

Woodrow Lloyd
8th Premier of Saskatchewan
In office November 7, 1961 – May 22, 1964
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor	Frank Lindsay Bastedo Robert Hanbidge
Preceded by	Tommy Douglas
Succeeded by	Ross Thatcher
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office June 15, 1944 – June 23, 1971
Preceded by	John Allan Young (CCF)
Succeeded by	Elwood Lorrie Cowley (NDP)
Constituency	Biggar
Leader of the Opposition
In office May 22, 1964 – July 4, 1970
Preceded by	Ross Thatcher
Succeeded by	Allan Blakeney
Personal details
Born	Woodrow Stanley Lloyd July 16, 1913 Webb, Saskatchewan
Died	April 7, 1972(1972-04-07) (aged 58) Seoul, South Korea
Political party	CCF—NDP
Spouse	Vicki Lloyd[1]

Woodrow Stanley Lloyd (July 16, 1913 – April 7, 1972) was a Canadian politician and educator. Born in Saskatchewan in 1913, he became a teacher in the early 1930s. He worked as a teacher and school principal until 1944 and was involved with the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, eventually becoming its president.

He was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1944. He served as Education Minister and then Treasurer in Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government between 1944 and 1961. He succeeded Douglas as Saskatchewan Premier in late 1961. Lloyd is best remembered as the man who piloted Canada's first Medicare program from legislation to implementation in 1962, and overcoming the Saskatchewan doctors' strike that summer strike to enable it to continue.

Lloyd was defeated in the 1964 Saskatchewan general election and served the next six years as the Leader of the Official Opposition. He stepped down as the New Democratic Party's leader in 1970 (the CCF changed its name in 1967), and from the Legislature in 1971. He was appointed to a United Nations post in South Korea, where he died of a heart attack in 1972.