Frank T. Fitzgerald

Frank Thomas Fitzgerald (born May 4, 1857 in New York City , † November 25, 1907 ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1889 .

Career

Frank Thomas Fitzgerald was born and raised in New York City about four years before the outbreak of the Civil War . He graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier in New York City, then from St. Mary's College in Niagara Falls in 1876 and from Columbia Law School in New York City in 1878 . He was admitted to the bar that same year and began practicing in New York County in 1879 .

In 1884 he ran unsuccessfully as an independent for a congress seat. Fitzgerald then joined the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1888 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Amos J. Cummings on March 4, 1889 . During the following time he allied with Tammany Hall in New York and resigned from his seat on November 4, 1889.

He was elected to the registry in New York County - a position he held until 1892. In 1892 he was elected guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in New York County for a 14-year term and re-elected in 1906. He held this post until his death on November 25, 1907 in New York City. He died of the long-term effects of a tram accident in which he was involved in Canada four years earlier . During his time in court, he was a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly in 1893 . His body was in the Calvary Cemetery in Woodside ( Queens buried).

Web links

• Frank T. Fitzgerald in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank T. Fitzgerald in the database of Find a Grave (English)