Famous People with Name Asselin

Roland Asselin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roland Asselin: was a Canadian Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics.

Edmund Tobin Asselin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Tobin Asselin: was a Canadian politician, administrator and businessman. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in

Gérard Asselin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gérard Asselin: is a Canadian politician. In his first run for federal office, in 1993, Asselin won the riding of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in a landslide, finishing 16,500 votes ahead of his closest opponent. The Tory candidate finished a distant third, and nearly lost his deposit. Asselin was reelected almost as easily in every election until losing to NDP challenger Jonathan Genest-Jourdain in 2011. Asselin is a former foreman, and was previously a city councillor in Baie-Comeau, Quebec from 1979 to 1993. Asselin is one of the party's few more socially conservative members. In 2005, Asselin joined five other Bloc Québécois members opposing Bill C-38, which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Canada.

Joseph Patrick Tobin Asselin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Patrick Tobin Asselin: was a Canadian politician. A Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) in the Canadian House of Commons for two terms in the 1960s, he returned to Parliament a quarter-century later to work as a security guard. During the 1963 federal election, he was serving as president of the Liberal riding association in Richmond—Wolfe, the rural Quebec constituency in which he lived, when the nominated Liberal candidate unexpectedly dropped out of the race 30 days before election day. Asselin stepped in as the new candidate, and defeated incumbent Social Credit MP André Bernier by 350 votes. Asselin's brother, Edmund Tobin Asselin, was re-elected in the Montreal riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the same election. Asselin's margin of victory increased to 2,000 votes at the 1965 election. When Pearson announced his retirement, Asselin supported Pierre Trudeau's campaign to become Liberal leader at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention. However, despite Trudeaumania, Asselin lost his seat at the 1968 election after the right-wing Ralliement Créditiste attacked the Liberal government in the rural, socially conservative riding over the government's social liberalism, particularly Trudeau's decriminalization of homosexuality. Both Asselin and Trudeau were accused of being Communists by supporters of Asselin's rival, Léonel Beaudoin.

François Asselineau            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Asselineau: is a French politician. He belonged to the Rally for France (RPF), before creating his own political party, Popular Republican Union, (UPR), a movement known for its patriotism and Euroscepticism. As many of École nationale d'administration alumni, Franço