Rodolphe Laflamme Explained

Rodolphe Laflamme
Constituency Mp:Jacques Cartier
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher
Successor:Désiré Girouard
Term Start:1872
Term End:1878
Birth Date:15 May 1827
Birth Place:Montreal, Lower Canada
Birth Name:Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec
Party:Liberal

Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme, (15 May 1827  - 7 December 1893), was a French-Canadian lawyer, professor of law and politician. He received a BCL in 1856 and an honorary DCL in 1873, both from McGill University.[1] He was a partner in a prominent Montreal, Quebec, law firm, and was known for his support of the Liberal party. He was from 1872 to 1878 a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada, and served as the Minister of Inland Revenue, and then the Minister of Justice in the administration of Alexander Mackenzie.

Family

His daughter Lady Jetté, married, in 1862, Sir Louis-Amable Jetté, K.C.M.G., a Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. She was born March 27, 1841, and educated in Montreal.[2]

By-election: On Mr. Laflamme being named Minister of Inland Revenue, 9 November 1876

References

Notes and References

  1. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=6206 "Laflamme, Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe"
  2. Book: Morgan . Henry James . Henry James Morgan . Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada . Toronto . Williams Briggs . 1903 . 178.