Jean-Louis Baribeau
Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Shawinigan
In office 1938–1968
Preceded by	Némèse Garneau
Succeeded by	position abolished
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Champlain
In office 1930–1935
Preceded by	Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers
Succeeded by	Hervé-Edgar Brunelle
Personal details
Born	(1893-03-19)March 19, 1893 Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Mauricie, Quebec, Canada
Died	December 26, 1975(1975-12-26) (aged 82) Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Conservative

Jean-Louis Baribeau (March 19, 1893 – December 26, 1975) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons.^[1]

He was born on March 19, 1893, in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Mauricie, the son of Donat Baribeau and Joséphine Lacroix, and was educated in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, at the Collège Sacré-Coeur in Victoriaville and at Griffin's Business College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Baribeau was a merchant. He was owner and president of Donat Baribeau & Fils Ltée, president of the Renardière de Sainte-Geneviève and a director of the Quebec retail merchants association. In 1923, he married Aimée Trudel.^[2]

Baribeau was mayor of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan from 1929 to 1931, from 1937 to 1947 and from 1955 to 1957. He was also warden for Champlain County from 1936 to 1940.^[2]

Baribeau ran as a Conservative candidate in the federal district of Champlain in 1930 and won.

However, he was defeated by Liberal candidate Hervé-Edgar Brunelle in 1935.

In 1938 he was appointed on the advice of Premier Maurice Duplessis to the Legislative Council of Quebec. He represented the division of Shawinigan and sat with the members of the Union Nationale.

Baribeau served as Speaker of the Legislative Council from 1950 to 1960 and from 1966 until the institution was abolished in 1968.

He died in Trois-Rivières^[2] on December 26, 1975.