death_date children birth_date alt residence term_end alma_mater constituency death_place term_start spouse image name occupation predecessor birth_place alongside party office successor religion article_title
2 june 1928 one son , two daughters november 30 , 1872 a hair and a three piece suit photographic portrait of a man with thinning dark edmonton september 1917 august 23 , 1918 june 1 , 1910 14 , 1926 may 1925 june 7 , university of toronto , osgoode hall law school athabaska edson edmonton calgary , alberta october 9 , 1905 may 4 , 1912 september 9 , 29 1905 , 1925 march 25 , 1913 november annie louisa lynde cw cross.jpg charles wilson cross lawyer '' district '' ' '' ` new district '' ' charles ` r. mitchell '' ` new position '' ' new district '' ' '' ` new madoc , ontario john ewing -lrb- 1913 -- 1917 -rrb- alexander mcdougall -lrb- 1909 -- 1913 -rrb- albert alberta liberal party , liberal party of canada member the legislative assembly of alberta attorney-general of alberta of the canadian house of commons member of donald '' ' john r. boyle charles r. mitchell ferdinand kellner christopher pattinson '' ` district abolished presbyterian charles wilson cross

charles wilson cross

charles wilson cross -lrb- november 30 , 1872 -- june 2 , 1928 -rrb- was a canadian politician who served in the legislative assembly of alberta and the canadian house of commons .
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 .
