Claude Dauphin (born December 17, 1953 in
Lachine, Quebec
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) is a lawyer and politician in the province of
Quebec
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, Canada. He was a
Montreal city councillor and also served as the mayor of the
Montreal
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borough of
Lachine. He was also elected to the
National Assembly of Quebec
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for the riding of
Marquette in the Montreal region from 1981 to 1994 as a member of the
Quebec Liberal Party
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; french: Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The QLP has always been associated with the colour red; e ...
.
Background
Dauphin went to
Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmo ...
and obtained a
bachelor's degree
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in
law
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and also attended the
University of British Columbia
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before being admitted to the
Barreau du Quebec
The Bar of Quebec (french: Barreau du Québec) is the regulatory body for the practice of advocates in the Canadian province of Quebec and one of two legal regulatory bodies in the province. It was founded on May 30, 1849, as the Bar of Lower Ca ...
. He was active as a lawyer from 1979 to 1981.
Member of the Provincial Legislature
Dauphin entered provincial politics in the
1981 election. He was elected in Marquette and re-elected for two other terms in
1985
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and
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. He was not part of the
Robert Bourassa
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or
Daniel Johnson Jr.
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cabinets from 1985 to 1994 but was named
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Public Security and the Justice Minister. He did not seek a fourth in the
1994 elections when the Liberal lost to the
Parti Québécois
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. He was succeeded in Marquette by
François Ouimet
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. He later worked in the office of former Canadian Federal Finance Minister
Paul Martin
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The son o ...
.
Montreal City Politics
Dauphin is a past president of the
Montreal Transit Corporation
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.
Dauphin was elected mayor of the Montreal borough of
Lachine in the
2005 municipal elections. He was also a councillor for Lachine between 2002 and 2005.
He sat on the Executive Committee of the
Montreal municipal council with the rank of vice-president and responsibility for public security. In 2008, he was named by Mayor
Gérald Tremblay
Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942) is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before b ...
, as the Chairperson of the City of Montreal's Executive Committee, replacing
Frank Zampino
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Early life
In 1976, Zampino graduated from L ...
.
Dauphin was speaker of the
Montreal City Council
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until April 2011 when he stepped down.
Dauphin was elected president of the
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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in June 2013.
In July 2013, Claude Dauphin launched his own borough-level political party for the November 2013 election, the Équipe Dauphin Lachine party.
Lachine mayor Claude Dauphin launches political party, July 25, 2013
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Footnotes
External links
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Société de transport de Montréal, Photo of Claude Dauphin
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Living people
1953 births
Mayors of places in Quebec
Montreal city councillors
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Lawyers in Quebec
Université Laval alumni
People from Lachine, Quebec
21st-century Canadian politicians