Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Politician
1857 – 1941
Who was Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895. Here he began his political career, winning in his third attempt a seat in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. In keeping with the territorial custom Rutherford ran as an independent, though he generally supported the territorial administration of Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. At the federal level, however, Rutherford was a Liberal.
In 1905, Alberta Lieutenant Governor George Bulyea asked Rutherford to form the new province's first government. As Premier, his first task was to win a workable majority in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which he did in the 1905 provincial election. His second was to provide the apparatus of provincial government: his government established everything from speed limits to a provincial court system. The legislature also controversially, and with Rutherford's support, selected Edmonton over rival Calgary as the provincial capital.
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1857
Osgoode Township, Ontario - Spouses
- Mattie Birkett
(1888/12 - 1940/09/13)
- Mattie Birkett
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
Civil law
( - 1881)
- McGill University
- Employment
- University of Alberta
- Lived in
- Ottawa
- Died
- Jun 11, 1941
Edmonton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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