{{short description|American politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | office= 34th Mayor of Tulsa | term_start=1986 | term_end=1988 | predecessor= Terry Young | successor=Rodger Randle | birth_name=Richard Carlisle Crawford | spouse=Joan Frankenberger (m. c.1957–2012; her death)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/dispatch/155507991|title=Joan Crawford Obituary (2012) - The Columbus Dispatch|website=www.legacy.com}}</ref> | party=Republican }}
'''Richard Carlisle Crawford''' is an American politician. He served as mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1986 to 1988. A Republican, he defeated independent Patty Eaton and 18 other candidates in the 1986 election for the mayor's chair.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/03/us/around-the-naiton-voters-in-tulsa-okla-elect-republican-mayor.html|title=AROUND THE NATION; VOTERS IN TULSA, OKLA., ELECT REPUBLICAN MAYOR (Published 1986)|work=The New York Times |date=April 3, 1986|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/2142844/eaton-concedes-race-crawford-tulsa-mayor/|title=Eaton Concedes Race; Crawford Tulsa Mayor|date=April 2, 1986|website=Oklahoman.com}}</ref> He was defeated in 1988 for re-election by Rodger Randle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oklahoman.com/article/2215903/crawford-randle-advance-in-race-for-tulsa-mayor/|title=Crawford, Randle Advance In Race for Tulsa Mayor|date=February 17, 1988|website=Oklahoman.com}}</ref> He is an alumnus of Ohio State University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.osu.edu/giving/donor-communities/presidents-club/|title=President's Club|date=June 3, 2016|website=The Ohio State University}}</ref>
==Electoral history== {{Election box begin | title=1992 Tulsa Mayoral special election<ref>{{cite news |title=Mayor's Race Results |url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/mayors-race-results/article_5b827e2e-885f-5c70-960c-f98a30d23413.html |access-date=December 21, 2024 |work=Tulsa World |date=August 26, 1992}}</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Susan Savage |votes = 37605 |percentage = 40.6% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. |votes = 20646 |percentage = 22.5% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Dick Crawford |votes = 11913 |percentage = 12.9% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Joe Williams |votes = 9,149 |percentage = 9.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = James Hogue Sr. |votes = 7806 |percentage = 8.5% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Tom Quinn |votes = 1522 |percentage = 1.7% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Larry C. Hovis |votes = 482 |percentage = 0.5% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Bob Kaczmarek |votes = 286 |percentage = 0.3% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Lawrence D. Randall |votes = 244 |percentage = 0.3% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = John F. Loerch |votes = 209 |percentage = .2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Barbara Kochevar Clark |votes = 197 |percentage = 0.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Dennis W. Mahon |votes = 186 |percentage = 0.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Sandra Ruffin |votes = 174 |percentage = 0.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Joe Jones |votes = 160 |percentage = 0.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Rocky Frisco |votes = 159 |percentage = 0.2% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Susan Town |votes = 128 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Robert D. Ward |votes = 117 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = William D. Reif |votes = 111 |percentage = .1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Dave Cuenod Jr. |votes = 103 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Linda Spalding |votes = 94 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Anthony R. Coleman Sr. |votes = 93 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Lawrence F. Kirkpatrick |votes = 89 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Rick Blackburn |votes = 86 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Ted C. Talbert |votes = 72 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = James F. Carrigan |votes = 70 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Shelley D. McNeill |votes = 70 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Chris T. Hartline |votes = 63 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Bob Looney |votes = 53 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Steven W. Kopet |votes = 51 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Charles R. Doty |votes = 49 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Les D. Ecker |votes = 49 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = William Neill Wilbanks |votes = 48 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Kenneth Ray Thompson |votes = 47 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Jim Ed Briggs |votes = 46 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Michael Luc Provencher |votes = 43 |percentage = 0.1% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Michael S. Crabbe |votes = 42 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = David Ferree |votes = 42 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Phillip Leon Hamilton |votes = 41 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Richard C. Bevins Jr. |votes = 38 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Douglas A. Casada |votes = 38 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Josh Martin |votes = 37 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Robert E. Fearon |votes = 34 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Dan O'Rourke Jr. |votes = 34 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Brad A. Pfeiffer |votes = 32 |percentage = 0.04% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Timothy A. Fisher |votes = 29 |percentage = 0.03% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Darein W. Gandall |votes = 28 |percentage = 0.03% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Richard E. Brooks |votes = 26 |percentage = 0.03% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Brad Jensen |votes = 26 |percentage = 0.03% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Monty Dale Davidson |votes = 23 |percentage = 0.03% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Robert E. Dumont |votes = 22 |percentage = 0.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Curtis W. Gilling |votes = 22 |percentage = 0.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = J. David Weatherman |votes = 22 |percentage = 0.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Gary Johns |votes = 21 |percentage = 0.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Rick R. J. Hart |votes = 17 |percentage = 0.02% }} {{Election box total| |votes = 92794 |percentage = 100.00% }} {{Election box end}}
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{{Mayors of Tulsa}}
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