James Samuel Taylor

James Samuel Taylor, the CCF MP for Nanaimo in British Columbia, was expelled from or left the CCF caucus around 1937. Taylor was one of the CCF's earliest elected members, winning his seat in 1935. However, the CCF's internal politics in the 1930s were turbulent, with frequent clashes between the party's parliamentary wing and its extra-parliamentary council over who controlled policy direction. Taylor found himself on the wrong side of these factional battles and was pushed out.

Taylor sat as an Independent for the remainder of his term. His expulsion was part of the broader growing pains of the CCF, which was still defining its organizational structure in its first decade. The party would eventually develop the disciplined internal structure that became a hallmark of Canadian social democratic politics.