Alexander Cameron Rutherford

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Alexander Cameron Rutherford (February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Canada West, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before he moved with his family to the North-West Territories in 1895. Besides his work as lawyer, he began a political career that saw him serve as member of the North-West Legislative Assembly and then as Liberal MLA, Liberal party leader, and premier of Alberta. During his premiership he laid the base for important elements of Alberta society even today, such as the University of Alberta. He lost the premiership in 1910 due to the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal and lost his Legislature seat in 1913. He later was prominent in the administration of the University of Alberta, beside which he and his family lived for decades. His home, Rutherford House, is an historic site on the grounds of the University of Alberta. In keeping with the territorial custom, while NWT member, Rutherford described himself as an independent but generally supported the administration of NWT Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. Rutherford was a prominent Liberal in federal politics and, after the founding of Alberta as a province in 1905, in provincial politics. When the Province of Alberta was formed in 1905, its lieutenant governor, George Bulyea, asked Rutherford to lead the new province's first government. As premier, Rutherford's first task was to hold a provincial election, in which he hoped to win a workable majority in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. This he did in that year's provincial election. He also needed to form a provincial government and set it in operation. His government established a wide range of powers, ranging from speed limits to a...