35th Montreal Mayor. He served in that position from 1932 to 1934. Born Louis-Édouard-Fernand Rinfret in Montreal, Quebec, to lawyer François Rinfret and his wife Albina Pominville, he worked first as a journalist, writer, and a teacher, before entering politics. He was educated at the famed Collège Notre-Dame and Collège Sainte-Marie in Montréal where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900. After graduating from college, he served as the Assistant Secretary to the Honorable Raymond Préfontaine who was a Minister in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Cabinet, and then he got a job in journalism at the L'Avenir du Nord in Saint-Jerome, Quebec. He published his first work, the biographies of the poet Octavie Cremazie and author Louis-Honore Frechette in 1906. He later moved to the Ottawa area and became a writer for the Le Canada Newspaper in 1907, and two years later he was made the newspaper's editor. In 1907, he was also named the Parliamentary Correspondent of Canada. In 1918, he was part of the delegation of Canadian journalists who visited England and the front in France, and he pronounced on this occasion several speeches in Paris and London. That same year, he published his second work "Un Voyage en Angleterre and the French Front". He then decided to enter politics and he was elected to the House of Commons after winning a seat to represent the district of Saint-Jacques, Quebec, in 1920. He would be re-elected to that same seat in the House of Commons five times over the next ten years in 1921, 1925, 1926, 1930, and again in 1935. During this time he also served his first term as the Secretary of State for Canada from 1926 to 1930. In 1932, he decided to run in the mayoral election. He won the election and replaced the outgoing Mayor Camilien Houde as the Mayor of the City of Montreal on April 11 of that year. As Mayor, he was seen as a great leader because of his already many years as a politician. The people of Montreal who were against the St. Lawrence Seaway project believed that he could block any further development. During the Great Depression, of the 1930s when the majority of building sites were stopped and the economy ran idle, he acted like a spectator. The Société Saint-Vincent-de-Paul was also no longer able to help the poor and the Montreal City Council had to set up a municipal unemployment commission. He also helped in the further development of the Montréal Public Library, an organization he had been involved in for more than 20 years. He left the office of the Mayor of Montreal in 1934 when in a strange twist he was beaten out for another term by Camillien Houde. He lastly served his second term as the Secretary of State for Canada from 1935 to 1939. He died in office of a heart attack while on a trip to Los Angeles, California. His awards include being made a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1920, and being made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French government in September 1925 He was also an Honorary President of the Canadian Operetta Society, a Member of the Reformation Club, of which he was President from 1916 to 1917, he also belonged to Club St-Denis, the Cercle Universitaire de Montréal, the Canadian Club, the Alliance Française and the Society of Olives. He was also director of the Bruchési Institute. Also an avid sportsman he at one time was the CEO of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens hockey club and a member of the National Athletic Association. His brothers were Thibaudeau Rinfret, the Chief Justice of Canada, and Charles Rinfret, a prominent Montreal businessman.