Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick

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Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick (born October 29, 1868 in Carthage , Smith County , Tennessee , †  June 25, 1908 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Morgan Fitzpatrick attended the public schools of his home and then the Lebanon University in Lebanon ( Ohio ). After studying law at Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee) and being admitted to the bar in 1891, he began working in his new profession in Hartville . He also published a newspaper in this city. Politically, Fitzpatrick was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1895 and 1899 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee , of which he was president in 1897. From 1899 to 1903 he served as the Tennessee Secretary of Education ( Superintendent of Public Instruction ). At times he was also the state chairman of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Charles Edward Snodgrass on March 4, 1903 . Since he refused to run again in 1904, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1905 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Fitzpatrick practiced law again. He died in Nashville on June 25, 1908 and was buried in Gallatin .

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SURNAME Fitzpatrick, Morgan Cassius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH near Carthage , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1908
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee