Charles Wilson Cross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of the Canadian House of Commons, Attorney-General of Alberta
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Place of Birth: Madoc, Ontario, Canada
About Charles Wilson Cross
- Charles Wilson Cross (November 30, 1872 – June 2, 1928) was a Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the House of Commons of Canada.
- He was also the first Attorney-General of Alberta.
- Born in Ontario, he studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School before coming west to practice in Edmonton.
- He became active with the Liberal Party of Canada, and when Alberta was created in 1905 he was chosen by Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford to be its first Attorney-General.
- Implicated in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he resigned in 1910 along with the rest of Rutherford's government. As a backbencher, he became the leader of Liberals opposed to the government of Rutherford's successor, Arthur Sifton, until Sifton re-appointed him Attorney-General in 1912.
- Cross served in this capacity under Sifton and his successor Charles Stewart until 1918, when Stewart fired him after receiving no response to his request for Cross's resignation.
- Cross remained in provincial politics until 1925, but in a radically diminished role.
- After leaving provincial politics, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons, only to be defeated in his 1926 re-election bid.
- He died in 1928.
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