Joseph Edmund Crawford (December 2, 1877 – October 9, 1964) was an Ontario chartered accountant and political figure.

He was born in Invermay, Bruce County, Ontario, the son of Robert Crawford.

He was president of the local Chamber of Commerce and vice-president of the Fort William Red Cross Society.

Crawford also served as auditor of Thunder Bay Films, one of the few professional motion picture companies operating in Canada during the 1920s.

[2] First elected in the Hepburn sweep of June 1934, he easily defeated Conservative Franklin Harford Spence 9100 votes to 5375, but when he opposed Hepburn's separate school legislation, he was challenged for the Liberal nomination by Roman Catholic Harry Murphy who ran in the October 1937 election as the official Liberal candidate.