Francis Cassidy, (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 attended Collège de l’Assomption with the support of Abbé Étienne Normandin. He began legal studies in Montreal, formally becoming a lawyer on 18 August 1848. After developing a distinguished legal career, he was designated

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on 5 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

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member for Montréal-Ouest riding during the first portion of the

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. Just months after becoming Montreal's uncontested mayor in February 1873, Cassidy died in office that June. He was entombed at the

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in Montreal. He never married.

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Francis Cassidy at City of Montreal
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Les archives de Radio-Canada: Francis Cassidy, maire de Montréal
(2 November 1948) 1827 births 1873 deaths 19th-century mayors of places in Quebec Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Canadian King's Counsel Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs Lawyers from Montreal Mayors of Montreal Members of the Institut canadien de Montréal Politicians from Lanaudière 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec {{Quebec-mayor-stub