Roger S. Crawford was born in 1945 in Bluefield, WV, and was raised mostly in Charlotte, NC. He is a 1968 graduate of Wake Forest College, graduate of Florida Realtors Institute, and a graduate of U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management.

Roger moved to Tallahassee in 1969 as a staff member of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. He began his real estate career in 1975 and opened Crawford Commercial in 1984.

Roger has been remarkably successful, both as a real estate broker and as a real estate investor, through all types of economic and government/regulation changes. This success has been primarily due to a claim "Can Do/Will Do" attitude of never quitting.

Roger has a strong feeling for community service having been twice president for the Tallahassee Ballet, the longest active member of Springtime Tallahassee and numerous other organizations. He was a finalist for Volunteer of the Year in 1995.

Roger is a active sportsman interested primarily in saltwater fly fishing and quail hunting.