Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (15 May 1827 – 7 December 1893), was a French-Canadian lawyer

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, professor

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 of law

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 and politician

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. He was a partner in a prominent Montreal

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, Quebec

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 law firm, and was known for his support of the Liberal

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 party. He was from 1872 to 1878 a member of parliament

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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, and served as the Minister of Inland Revenue

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, and then the Minister of Justice

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 in the administration of Alexander Mackenzie

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Family

His daughter Lady Jetté, married, in 1862, Sir Louis-Amable Jetté

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, K.C.M.G., a Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lieutenant-Governor of of Quebec. She was born March 27, 1841 and educated in Montreal.