Pietro Rizzuto Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Pietro Rizzuto
Office:Senator for Repentigny, Quebec
Appointed:Pierre Trudeau
Predecessor:J.-Eugène Lefrançois
Successor:Marisa Ferretti Barth
Term Start:December 23, 1976
Term End:August 3, 1997
Birth Date:18 March 1934
Birth Place:Cattolica Eraclea, Italy
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec
Party:Liberal

Pietro Rizzuto (March 18, 1934  - August 3, 1997) (pronounced as /it/; was a Canadian politician.

Born in Cattolica Eraclea, Italy, he came to Canada at the age of 20. In 1963, he founded Inter State Paving Inc., a construction company.

In 1976, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Pierre Trudeau representing the senatorial division of Repentigny, Quebec. He was the first Canadian of Italian origin to be appointed to the Senate. He was an "old and dear friend" of Jean Chrétien.

He was made a Grande Ufficiale of Italy's Order of Merit of the Republic.

He was married to Pina and had three children: Melina, Alfonso, and Maria Christina. He died in Montreal in 1997.

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