Herbert Crawford

Herbert Howard Crawford (born: - died: ) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.

Crawford attempted a run at Edmonton municipal politics running for the position of Public School Trustee in the December 1912 Edmonton Municipal Election. He was unsuccessful in his bid to win a seat finishing 6th out of 7 candidates.

Less then a year later in the 1913 Alberta general election Crawford ran in the new Edmonton South against former premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford. Crawford defeated Rutherford by a substantial plurality that was not expected. [cite web|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n6pp1032.jpg| title = Alberta Answers Campaign of Misrepresentation and Slander | publisher = Edmonton Daily Bulletin | date = April 18, 1913 | accessdate = 2007-11-08]

He would run for a second term in office in the 1917 Alberta general election. Crawford increased his margin of victory to win Edmonton South by a comfortable majority.

Edmonton South would be abolished in the 1921 Alberta general election as the 3 Edmonton ridings would be amalgamated into a single constituency with 5 seats electing members under a block vote. Crawford would go down to defeat finishing 9th out of the field of 26 candidates. He would attempt to re-gain a seat in the 1926 Alberta general election but again was substantially defeated under the new Single Transferable Vote system.

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* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Alberta Legislature Membership Listing]