Candide Rochefort | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal–Sainte-Marie |
Predecessor: | Gaspard Fauteux |
Successor: | Camillien Houde |
Term Start: | 1935 |
Term End: | 1939 |
Birth Date: | 8 February 1904 |
Birth Place: | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec |
Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Resting Place: | Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery |
Party: | Action libérale nationale Union Nationale |
Candide Rochefort (February 8, 1904 - June 24, 1971) was a politician Quebec, Canada and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (MLA).
He was born on February 8, 1904, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec and became a brick mason.
Rochefort ran for Mayor of Montreal in 1936 and 1938 and each time finished a distant third.
He ran as an Action libérale nationale candidate in the district of Montréal–Sainte-Marie in the 1935 provincial election and won against Liberal incumbent Gaspard Fauteux. Rochefort joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. He was defeated by Mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde in the 1939 election.
He died on June 24, 1971, in Montreal.