John Alexander Craig (March 26, 1880 – November 20, 1968) was a political figure in
Ontario
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. He represented
Lanark North
Lanark North was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867 which divided the County of Lanark in ...
in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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from 1929 to 1937 as a
Conservative
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member.
He was born in
White
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in
Lanark County
Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is Perth, which was first settled in 1816.Brown, Howard Morton, 1984. Lanark Legacy, Nineteenth Century Glimpses of on Ontario County. Corporation of the Cou ...
,
the son of John Craig and May Camelot, and was educated there. In 1904, he married Alberta Olive Stewart. Craig served as reeve of
Darling township for 15 years
and was warden for Lanark County in 1921. He died in 1968 and was buried at Hillcrest Union Cemetery, in Calabogie, Ontario.
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1880 births
1968 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
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