Alexander Cameron Rutherford KC (February 2, 1857 - June 11, 1941) was a Canadian legal counselor

and legislator who filled in as the principal chief of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Brought into the
world in Ormond, Canada West, he examined and provided legal counsel in Ottawa before he moved
with his family toward the North-West Regions in 1895. There, he started his political vocation,
winning in his third endeavor a seat in the North-West Regulative Gathering. With regards to the
regional custom, Rutherford ran as a free however commonly upheld the regional organization of
Chief Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. At the government level, nonetheless, Rutherford was a Liberal.

In 1905, Alberta Lieutenant Lead representative George Bulyea requested that Rutherford structure
the new territory's most memorable government. As chief, Rutherford's most memorable errand
was to win a functional larger part in the Regulative Gathering of Alberta, which he did in the 1905
commonplace political decision. His second was to give the contraption of commonplace
government, and his administration laid out all that from speed cutoff points to a common court
framework. The governing body likewise dubiously, and with Rutherford's help, chose Edmonton
over rival Calgary as the common capital. Calgarians' swollen sentiments were not salved when the
public authority found the College of Alberta, an undertaking dear to the Head's heart, in his old
neighborhood of Strathcona, directly across the North Saskatchewan Waterway from Edmonton.

The public authority was confronted with work distress in the coal mining industry, which it settled
by laying out a commission to look at the issue. It likewise set up a commonplace government phone
organization (Alberta Government Phones) at extraordinary cost, and attempted to energize the
improvement of new railroads. It was in quest for the last genuine that the Rutherford government
ended up entangled in embarrassment. Ahead of schedule in 1910, William Henry Cushing's
acquiescence as Pastor of Public Works encouraged the Alberta and Extraordinary Streams Railroad
embarrassment, which turned large numbers of Rutherford's Dissidents against his administration.
At last, tension from many party figures constrained Rutherford to leave. He kept his seat in the
council subsequent to leaving as chief, however he was crushed in the 1913 political decision by
Moderate Herbert Crawford.

In the wake of leaving legislative issues, Rutherford proceeded with hey regulation practice and his
contribution with an extensive variety of local gatherings. In particular, he became chancellor of the
College of Alberta, whose prior establishing had been an individual undertaking, and remained there
until he passed on from a cardiovascular failure. A College of Alberta library, an Edmonton primary
school, and Jasper Public Park's Mount Rutherford are named in his honor. Furthermore, his home,
Rutherford House, was opened as a gallery in 1973.