Rex Crawford

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1932–2022)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}

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| name = Rex Crawford

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| constituency_MP = Kent

| parliament = Canadian

| predecessor = Elliott Hardey

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| term_start = 1988

| term_end = 1997

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|2|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|7|20|1932|2|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada

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| spouse = {{marriage|Ruth Anne Deacon|1954}}

| party = Liberal Party of Canada

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| children = 4

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| profession = Farmer

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| footnotes={{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7rXAAAAMAAJ&q=Rex+Crawford+Ruth+Anne | first=Pierre G. | last=Normandin | year=1990 | publisher=Borealis Press | isbn=9780888879028 }}

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Rex Crawford (25 February 1932 – 20 July 2022) was a Canadian politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1988 to 1997. By career, he was a farmer.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, he first campaigned for a seat in Canadian Parliament during the 1988 federal election, as a candidate for the Liberal Party at the Kent electoral district. He won that election and was re-elected there in the 1993 federal election, therefore serving in the 34th and 35th Canadian Parliaments. He left Canadian politics in 1997 since he did not seek a third term in Parliament.

During his federal political career, Crawford would sometimes take views at variance with his fellow Liberals. In 2004, several years after he left Parliament, he supported Conservative party candidate Dave Van Kesteren in the Chatham-Kent—Essex riding during the 2004 federal election.{{cite news | title=Famed former Grit MP feeling Tory blue | date=29 May 2004 | publisher=London Free Press | url=http://www.lfpress.ca/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=elections&p=84959.html&a=1 | accessdate=29 July 2006 | first=Patrick | last=Maloney | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://archive.today/20040814012000/http://www.lfpress.ca/perl-bin/niveau2.cgi?s=elections&p=84959.html&a=1 | archivedate=14 August 2004 | df=dmy-all }}

Crawford died on 20 July 2022, at the age of 90.[https://www.chathamdailynews.ca/news/crawford-remembered-for-public-service Tom Morrison, "Crawford remembered for public service"], Chatham Daily News, 22 July 2022, accessed 22 July 2022.{{cite web | url=https://www.cavanaghfuneralhome.ca/obituaries/Rex-Crawford/#!/Obituary | title=Rex Crawford - View Obituary & Service Information }}