Fernand Rinfret

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1883–1939)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Fernand Rinfret.png | caption = Fernand Rinfret in ca. 1925 | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}} | office1 = 35th Mayor of Montreal | term_start1 = 11 April 1932 | term_end1 = 1934 | predecessor1 = Camillien Houde | successor1 = Camillien Houde | constituency_MP2 = St. James | parliament2 = Canadian | predecessor2 = Louis Audet Lapointe | successor2 = Eugène Durocher | term_start2 = 1920 | term_end2 = 1939 | office3 = 26th Secretary of State for Canada | prime_minister3 = William Lyon Mackenzie King | predecessor3 = George Halsey Perley | successor3 = Charles Cahan | term_start3 = 1926 | term_end3 = 1930 | prime_minister4 = William Lyon Mackenzie King | predecessor4 = Charles Cahan | successor4 = Ernest Lapointe | term_start4 = 1935 | term_end4 = 1939 | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1883|02|28}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1939|7|12|1883|02|28}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | party = Liberal | profession = Journalist }}

'''Louis-Édouard-Fernand Rinfret''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (February 28, 1883 – July 12, 1939) was a Canadian politician.

==Biography== He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the Montreal riding of St. James in a 1920 by-election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1921, 1925, 1930, and 1935. From 1926 to 1930 and again from 1935 to 1939, he was the Secretary of State for Canada.

From 1932 to 1934, he was the mayor of Montreal.

He was brother to Thibaudeau Rinfret, the Chief Justice of Canada, and Charles Rinfret, a prominent Montreal businessman.

==Gallery== <gallery> Image:KingCabinetMeeting1930.jpg|14th Canadian Ministry Image:Montreal-Place Vauquelin, Viger, Note.jpg|A commemorative plaque, Vauquelin Square </gallery>

==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite web|url=http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/FernandRinfret.htm |title=The Quebec History Encyclopedia |language=fr |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908202807/http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/FernandRinfret.htm |archivedate=8 September 2006 |df=dmy }}

==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=7499}}

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Sir George Halsey Perley}} {{s-ttl|title=Secretary of State of Canada |years=1926–1930}} {{s-aft|after=Charles Hazlitt Cahan}}

{{s-bef|before=Charles Hazlitt Cahan}} {{s-ttl|title=Secretary of State of Canada |years=1935–1939}} {{s-aft|after=Ernest Lapointe}} {{end}}

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