Crawford Anderson

{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}

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| start = {{NZ election link year|1887}}

| end = 1890

| term = 10th

| electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Bruce}}

| party = Independent politician

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John Crawford Anderson ({{circa}} 1848 – 12 November 1930) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Otago, New Zealand.

Anderson was born about 1848 at Maori Kaik on Otago Peninsula, the son of Archibald Anderson.{{cite book

| title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: A–L

| editor-last = Scholefield | editor-first = Guy | editor-link = Guy Scholefield

| year = 1940

| publisher = Department of Internal Affairs | location = Wellington

| volume = I | pages = 13–16

| url = https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf

}}

He represented the Bruce electorate from {{NZ election link year|1887}} to 1890, when he retired.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=James Oakley |year=1985 |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition=4th |orig-year=First ed. published 1913 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location=Wellington |page=180 |oclc=154283103}}

He unsuccessfully contested the Bruce electorate in the {{NZ election link|1899}} against the incumbent, James Allen.{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1899 |publisher=Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives |location=Wellington |page=3 |url=https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1900-I.2.3.2.54 |date=19 June 1900 |access-date=1 November 2012}}