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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Jacques Flynn
| honorific-suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|QC|OC|size=100%}}
| image               = 
| alt                 = 
| caption             = 
| office              = [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|Minister of Justice<br />Attorney General of Canada]]
| primeminister       = [[Joe Clark]]
| term_start          = June 4, 1979
| term_end            = March 2, 1980
| predecessor         = [[Marc Lalonde]]
| successor           = [[Jean Chrétien]]
| office1           = [[Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys]]
| primeminister1    = [[John Diefenbaker]]
| term_start1       = December 28, 1961
| term_end1         = July 12, 1962
| predecessor1      = [[Walter Dinsdale]] (acting)
| successor1        = [[Hugh John Flemming]] (acting)
| office2             = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for [[List of Quebec senators#Rougemont|Rougemont, Quebec]]
| appointed2          = John Diefenbaker
| term_start2         = November 9, 1962
| term_end2           = August 22, 1990
| predecessor2        = [[Henri Courtemanche]]
| successor2          = [[John Sylvain]]
| riding3             = [[Quebec South]]
| parliament3         = Canadian
| term_start3         = March 31, 1958
| term_end3           = June 17, 1962
| predecessor3        = [[Frank Power (politician)|Frank Power]]
| successor3          = [[Jean-Charles Cantin]]
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1915|8|22}}
| birth_place         = [[Saint-Hyacinthe]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2000|9|21|1915|8|22}}
| death_place         = [[Quebec City]], Quebec, Canada
| restingplace        = 
| party               = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| children            = 2
| relatives           = [[Edmund James Flynn]] (grandfather)
| profession          = {{hlist|Lawyer}}
| spouse              = {{marriage|Renée Henri des Rivières|1945}}
| education           = [[Université Laval]]
}}

'''Jacques Flynn''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|QC}} (August 22, 1915 &ndash; September 21, 2000) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] lawyer and federal politician, serving in both the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] and [[Senate of Canada|Senate]].

Flynn was born in [[Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec]], the grandson of the [[Premier of Quebec]] [[Edmund James Flynn]]. He both graduated in law from [[Université Laval]] and was called to the [[Bar of Quebec|Quebec Bar]] in 1939.

A [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]], Flynn ran unsuccessfully to represent the [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Quebec South]] in the House of Commons in the [[1957 Canadian federal election|1957 election]]; he came second to the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] incumbent, [[Frank Power (politician)|Frank Power]]. He narrowly defeated Power in a rematch in Quebec South in the [[1958 Canadian federal election|1958 election]] when [[John Diefenbaker]] led the PC Party to a [[landslide victory]].

Flynn became Deputy [[Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada]] in 1960. In December 1961, [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] Diefenbaker brought Flynn into the [[Cabinet of Canada]] as Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys, a position he held until losing his seat to Liberal challenger [[Jean-Charles Cantin]] in the [[1962 Canadian federal election|1962 election]] that reduced the Conservatives to a [[minority government]]. Later that year, he was appointed to the Senate.

Flynn served as [[Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition in the Senate]] from 1967 until the [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979 election]] that brought the Tories back to power. Prime Minister [[Joe Clark]] brought Flynn into Cabinet as [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|Minister of Justice]]. It was unusual for a senator to hold such a senior cabinet portfolio, but as the Conservatives were elected with virtually no representation from Quebec, it was necessary to attempt to achieve regional balance in Cabinet by appointing senators to the body.

With the defeat of the Clark government to [[Pierre Trudeau]]'s Liberals in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 election]], Flynn returned to the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He continued in that role until the PCs, now led by [[Brian Mulroney]], returned to government in [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]]. He remained in the Upper House until his retirement in 1990.

In 1993, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{OCC|3142}}</ref>

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==External links==
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