{{Short description|Canadian politician (1849–1921)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=March 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Edmond Louis Philippe Fortier | honorific_suffix = | image = Edmond Fortier.jpg | image_size = | constituency_MP = Lotbinière | parliament = Canadian | predecessor = Côme Isaïe Rinfret | successor = Thomas Vien | term_start = 1900 | term_end = 1917 | birth_date = {{birth date|1849|04|10}} | birth_place = St-Gervais, Bellechasse County, Canada East | death_date = {{death date and age|1921|06|27|1849|04|10}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Liberal | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = }} '''Edmond Louis Philippe Fortier''' (April 10, 1849 – June 27, 1921) was a Canadian politician.
Born in St-Gervais, Bellechasse County, Canada East, the son of Octave-Cyrille Fortier, a Quebec politician, and Henriette-Émilie Ruel, Fortier was educated at the Laval Normal School, Quebec. A farmer, he ran unsuccessfully in the electoral district of Beauce against Jean Blanchet for the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1890. He was mayor of Lambton, Quebec. He served for nineteen years in the Militia and was Captain of the 23rd Battalion of Beauce. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Lotbinière in a 1900 by-election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1911. ==Electoral record== {{1900 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière}}
{{CanElec1-by|25 January 1900|Rinfret was appointed inspector of Inland Revenue, 25 August 1899}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Edmond Fortier|1,496}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|J.H. Boisvert|1,324}} {{end}} {{1904 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière|Lotbinière}} {{1908 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière|Lotbinière}} {{CanElec1-by|26 October 1909|Due to the election being declared void on 29 September 1909}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Edmond Fortier|1,379}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Théodore Dubé|1,076}} {{end}} {{1911 Canadian federal election/Lotbinière}}
==References== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=4451}} * [https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame00montuoft The Canadian Parliament; biographical sketches and photo-engravures of the senators and members of the House of Commons of Canada. Being the tenth Parliament, elected November 3, 1904]
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