| Herbert Crawford | |
| Birth Name: | Herbert Howard Crawford |
| Birth Date: | 10 March 1878 |
| Birth Place: | Brampton, Ontario |
| Death Place: | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| Constituency: | Edmonton South |
| Term Start: | 1913 |
| Term End: | 1921 |
Herbert Howard Crawford (March 10, 1878 – January 27, 1946) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born in Brampton, Ontario.[1]
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 than 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.[2]
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.
He died at his home in Edmonton on January 27, 1946.[3]
