About Thibaudeau Rinfret
Thibaudeau Rinfret (June 22, 1879 – July 25, 1962) was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He also served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1924 to 1944. == Early life == Rinfret was born in Montreal in 1879, the son of François-Olivier Rinfret and Albina Pominville. He was the brother of Fernand Rinfret, Liberal politician who became Mayor of Montreal, and brother of Charles Rinfret, a prominent Montreal businessman. == Professional career == Rinfret studied law at the Université Laval à Montréal, Faculté de droit and McGill University and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1901. He was a professor of comparative law and public utilities at McGill. Rinfret was a staunch Liberal, and was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1908 federal election in the electoral district of Terrebonne, losing a close race to Conservative Wilfrid Bruno Nantel. Rinfret was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court in 1922. == Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada == On January 30, 1924, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appointed Quebec Superior Court judge Albert Malouin to the Supreme Court. Malouin was in poor health and unaware he was a candidate for the position, his appointment has been criticized by historians Snell and Vaughan as "the least thoughtful in the history of the [Court]." Malouin's appointment was recommended by Ernest Lapointe, overruling Justice Minister Lomer Gouin's preferred candidates, Rinfret and Louis St.
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