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As most of his intimate friends knew that he had no desire to oppose Mr. M'Cracken met a number of his friends yesterday at the city committee rooms, Queen Street, and promptly upon the heels of the public announcement to stand come many and cordial offers of assistance. In 1894 McCracken, as a Free-Trade Democratic Association candidate, stood against the incumbent MLA, Alfred Deakin ( Independent), for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Essendon and Flemington. Director of the Trustees Executors & Agency Co.Vice-President of the Victorian Racing Club.Vice-President of the North Suburban Cycling Club.Vice-President of the Essendon Golf Club.Chairman of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (1909-1915).

Chairman of the Liquor Trades Defence Union (1903).

Chairman of the Manufacturers' Bottle Co.

Chairman of the Brewers' Association of Victoria (1901).

Founder and president of the Essendon Rowing Club.

President of the Brewers' Club of Melbourne.

President of the Essendon Town Fire Brigade.

President of the Essendon Poultry, Dog, Pigeon and Canary Society.

President of the Essendon Literary and Debating Society.

Elected at the VFL's first official meeting on 12 April 1897 he retired (due to ill-health) just before his death in 1915.

First president of the Victorian Football League (VFL).

First secretary of the Essendon Football Club (at the age of 17).

He was deeply involved in various sporting/mercial organizations as administrator, founder, and/or patron, including: " ( The Referee, 6 August 1917) Organisations and Associations This he held until just before he passed away. secretary, player, and later president for the greater part of his life, in spite of his racing interests, and the huge business organisation he controlled, relinquishing his official connection with the club only to assume the more important position of president of the Victorian League. Alexander McCracken (one of the most distinguished of Victorian sportsmen) was hon. Graham as treasurer, were the heart and soul of the club at the beginning. "The brothers McCracken, of the wealthy brewing firm, with A. He was appointed a Director of the new company.Īlex McCracken played a number of times for the Essendon Football Club in the four pre-VFA years (1873-1876) with his brother, John, and his cousin, Coiler, and also in the club's first season in the VFA 1877, when the team was captained by his cousin. He was the head of McCracken's Breweries, until May 1907 when the company, along with five other brewing firms, was merged into Carlton & United Breweries Limited. He attended Melbourne's Scotch College in East Melbourne from 1869 to 1871. Scotch College, at Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne (c.1906) - the current location of The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - before Scotch College's 1916 move to its current site in Hawthorn The has two sons, and three daughters: Alec Lindsay McCracken (1885-1959), Joy Margaret Louisa McCracken (1886-1945), Murray Robert McCracken (1888-1964), Jean Mary McCracken (1890-1983), and Madge Huntington McCracken (1891-1967). Īlexander McCracken married Mary Elizabeth (1863-1938), a daughter of John Murray Peck - co-founder of Cobb and Co, and vice-president of the Essendon Football Club from 1898 to 1905 - on 19 July 1884. His brother John (1853-1879) became Essendon's first team captain, and his cousin Coiler McCracken (1848-1915), became Essendon's second captain. The son of Robert McCracken (1813-1885), the brewer and first president of the Essendon Football Club, and Margaret McCracken (1831-1905), née Hannay, Alexander McCracken was born in Melbourne on.