- Sévère Rivard
Infobox Mayor
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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = Sévère Rivard
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order = 17th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1879
term_end = 1881
predecessor =Jean-Louis Beaudry
successor =Jean-Louis Beaudry (return)
birth_date =7 August 1834
birth_place =Yamachiche, Quebec ,Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1888|2|4|1834|8|7
death_place =Montreal ,Quebec ,Canada
constituency = Saint-Jacques
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spouse = Delphine Choquette (m. 1863)
profession =Lawyer
religion = Roman Catholic
footnotes =Sévère-Dominique Rivard (
7 August 1834 -4 February 1888 ) was a Canadianlawyer and politician, the Mayor of Montreal, Quebec between 1879 and 1881.After an education at the
Séminaire de Nicolet , Rivard apprenticed in law underRodolphe Laflamme and Edmund Barnard, formally becoming a lawyer in 1859.In 1870, Rivard was elected to city council at the Saint-Jacques ward and was re-elected to council in 1873. Between 1870 and 1877 he also served as a member of the city's Roman Catholic Board of School Commissioners. Rivard campaigned for mayor in 1879, defeating the allegedly undefeatable incumbent
Jean-Louis Beaudry by a 290 vote margin. He ran unopposed in the 1880 election and enjoyed a second term as Mayor.Rivard died on
4 February 1888 after sustaining a case of "paralysis".Further reading
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External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5800 Sévère Rivard at Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
* [http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_en/expo/maires/rivard/index.shtm Sévère Rivard at City of Montreal]
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