George Gordon Crawford (August 24, 1869 – March 20, 1936) was an American industrialist.
[1] Crawford was born to George Gilmore and Margaret Reed Howard Crawford on August 24, 1869, and raised on a plantation in Madison, Georgia.
[4] In 1907, he became the president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in Birmingham, Alabama, during which time he was named "Alabama's First Citizen".
[4][5] He became president of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1930.
[5] He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.