Alexander Cameron Rutherford (February 2, 1857 _ June 11, 1941), Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta between 1905 and 1910.
Alexander Rutherford was born in 1857, on a farm in Carleton County, Ontario. In 1881 he graduated from McGill University with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees. In 1885 he was called to the Ontario Bar, practising at the law firm of Hodgkins, Kidd, and Rutherford. In 1895 he moved to the District of Alberta in western Canada where he continued to practise law.
Rutherford's government promoted railway and road expansion and the creation of a public telephone system. He was forced to resign as premier on May 26, 1910, over allegations of conflict of interest in the government's proposals to insure bonds issued by a railway company. Although cleared of wrongdoing, he lost his seat in the legislature in the 1913 election. He later joined the Conservatives, campaigning for them in the 1921 federal election.
On December 19, 1888, he married Mattie Birkett, with whom he had three children: Cecil Alexander, Hazel Elizabeth and Marjorie Cameron.
AlexanderRutherford was born in 1857, on a farm in Carleton County, Ontario.
AlexanderRutherford was the first lawyer south of the North Saskatchewan River, an area later to become known as Strathcona (amalgamating with Edmonton in 1912).
Rutherford was joined in the practice of law by Stanley Harwood McCuaig, who articled with the firm and later married Rutherford's daughter Hazel.
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