- Francis Cassidy
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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = Francis Cassidy
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order = 14th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = February 1873
term_end = June 1873
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predecessor =Charles-Joseph Coursol
successor =Aldis Bernard
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birth_date =17 January 1827
birth_place = Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan,Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1873|6|14|1827|1|17
death_place =Montreal ,Quebec
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profession =lawyer
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footnotes =Francis Cassidy QC (
17 January 1827 -14 June 1873 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician, the Mayor of Montreal, Quebec for three months in 1873, until his term was cut short by death.Cassidy was born at Saint-Jacques-de-l’Achigan, in what is today Quebec's
Montcalm Regional County Municipality, Quebec . Despite spending childhood in a poor family, he attendedCollège de l’Assomption with the support of AbbéÉtienne Normandin . He began legal studies in Montreal, formally becoming a lawyer on18 August 1848 . After developing a distinguished legal career, he was designatedQueen's Counsel on5 August 1863 .He was a founder of the
Institut canadien de Montréal and served as its president between 1849 and 1850 and again between 1857 and 1858. From 1871 to 1873, he served as a Conservative member of Provincial Montreal West riding during the first portion of the2nd Legislative Assembly of Quebec .Just months after becoming Montreal's uncontested mayor in February 1873, Cassidy died in office that June. He never married.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4887 Francis Cassidy at Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
* [http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_en/expo/maires/cassidy/index.shtm Francis Cassidy at City of Montreal]
* [http://archives.radio-canada.ca/societe/histoire/clips/14563/ Les archives de Radio-Canada: Francis Cassidy, maire de Montréal] (2 November 1948 )
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