{{Short description|Newfoundland merchant and politician (1876–1932)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable |name = Sir John Chalker Crosbie |honorific_suffix = KBE |image = John Chalker Crosbie.png |caption = Crosbie in 1924 |office = 3rd Prime Minister of Newfoundland |term_start = {{start date|1917|12|31}} |term_end = {{end date|1918|01|05}} |monarch = George V |governor = Charles Alexander Harris |predecessor = Edward Morris |successor = William Lloyd {{Collapsed infobox section begin | cont = yes | Legislative offices | titlestyle = border:1px dashed lightgrey; }} {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | constituency_AM1 = St. John's West | assembly1 = Newfoundland House of | term_start1 = {{start date|1924|06|02}} | term_end1 = {{end date|1928|10|29}} | alongside1 = William J. Browne and William Linegar | predecessor1 = Michael Cashin<br>Charles Hunt<br>Richard Squires | successor1 = Alexander Campbell<br>Joseph Fitzgibbon (as MHAs for St. John's City West) | constituency_AM2 = Port de Grave | assembly2 = Newfoundland House of | term_start2 = {{start date|1919|11|03}} | term_end2 = {{end date|1923|05|03}} | predecessor2 = George Grimes | successor2 = Harry A. Winter | constituency_AM3 = Bay de Verde | assembly3 = Newfoundland House of | term_start3 = {{start date|1908|11|02}} | term_end3 = {{end date|1919|11|03}} | alongside3 = <br>Jesse Whiteway (1908–1913)<br>Albert Hickman (1913–1919) | predecessor3 = Charles H. Hutchings<br>William C. Winsor | successor3 = William H. Cave<br>Frederick LeGrow{{Collapsed infobox section end}} }} |birth_date = {{birth date|1876|9|11}} |birth_place = Brigus, Newfoundland Colony |death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|10|5|1876|10|5}} |death_place = St. John’s, Newfoundland |spouse = {{marriage|Mitchie Ann Manuel|1899}} |children = 13 (including Chesley and Vera) |relatives = John Crosbie (grandson)<br>Ches Crosbie (great-grandson) |party = People’s (1908–1919)<br />Liberal-Progressive (1919–1923)<br />Liberal-Labour-Progressive (1923–1924) <br />Liberal-Conservative Progressive (1924–1928) }}
'''Sir John Chalker Crosbie''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE}} (September 11, 1876 – October 5, 1932) was a Newfoundland merchant and politician.
== Early life and business career ==
Crosbie was born on September 11, 1876 in Brigus as the son of George Graham Crosbie and Martha Ellen (née Chalker).<ref name="DCB">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Baker|first=Melvin|date=2016|title=Crosbie, Sir John Chalker|url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/crosbie_john_chalker_16E.html|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume 16|location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=24 March 2026}}</ref> An aggressive and energetic entrepreneur, he created a fortune (which he lost) and started the Crosbie dynasty. His son, Chesley Crosbie,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948: Reports and papers |date=1995 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press}}</ref> and grandson, John Crosbie<ref>{{cite book|last=Crosbie|first=John|title=No Holds Barred: My Life in Politics|year=1997|publisher=McCellend and Stewart Inc.|isbn=0-7710-2427-4|pages=200–205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o55EtpA2H-oC&q=no+holds+barred+john+crosbie&pg=PA4}}</ref> were both affluent politicians. In 1900 Crosbie founded Crosbie and Co. and by 1920 was one of the leading fish exporters in Newfoundland.
== Politics ==
He entered politics as MHA for Bay de Verde in 1908. After Edward Morris resigned at the end of 1917, Crosbie served as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until 5 January 1918, when William Lloyd took office. He was Minister of Shipping in 1919 and Minister of Finance and Customs under Prime Minister Walter Monroe from 1924 to 1928.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/03/news/they-all-expected-die|title = 'We all expected to die': Author Anne Budgell recounts her research on the 1918 Spanish Flu in Labrador|date = 3 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXecCgAAQBAJ&q=John+Chalker+Crosbie+spanish+flu|title = Encounters: An Anthropological History of Southeastern Labrador|isbn = 9780773583443|last1 = Kennedy|first1 = John C.|date = May 2015| publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP }}</ref>
Crosbie was knighted KBE in 1919.
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==External links== * {{cite web|url=http://www.janewfoundland.org/about.cfm?itemid=1341&smocid=675 |title=Newfoundland and Labrador Business Hall of Fame |accessdate=March 26, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213070208/http://www.janewfoundland.org/about.cfm?itemid=1341&smocid=675 |archivedate=February 13, 2006 }} * [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-john-chalker-crosbie/ Sir John Chalker Crosbie] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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