Edwin L. Crawford (April 10, 1925 – September 27, 1993) was an American politician, most notable for having served as

Broome County, New York Broome County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the county had a population of 198,683. Its county seat is Binghamton. The county was named for John Broome, the state's lieutenant governor when Br ...

's first

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, and was "a leader in efforts to modernize county governments through the United States."

Biography

Crawford was born in Broome County and served in the 17th Airborne Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he graduated from

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and

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and practiced law from 1950 to 1977. He was appointed the first county executive of Broome County in 1968 and left office in 1976. After retiring from politics, he served as executive director of the New York State Association of Counties. Crawford died of prostate cancer in 1993. The Edwin L. Crawford County Office Building in downtown Binghamton is named after him as is a memorial lecture at

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