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 FITZPATUICK

I'lTZSIMONS

in 1S97 was elected coadjutor to the bisliop of Erie, Pa. He was consecrated at the Philadelphia cathe- dral, Feb. 24, 1898, titular bishop of Amisus by Archbishop Ryan, assisted by BishoiJs Horstnian and Pendergast. He siiid his first pontifical mass on Sunday, Feb. 27, 1898, at St. Agatha's church, Philadelphia, and then proceeded to his new field of labor, where he relieved the venerable Bishop IMullen of much of the care of his diocese, which he ha<l carricil alone for over thirty years.

FITZPATRICK, Benjamin, governor of Ala- bama, was born in Greene county, Ga., June 30, 1802. He removed to the territory of Alabama in 1818 and was admitted to the bar at Mont- gomery in 1821. He was solicitor of the Mont- gomery circuit 1822-23; practised his profession 1823-29, and retired to his plantation in Autauga county in the latter year. He was nominated as a Democratic presidential elector in 1840 and can- vassed the state for Mr. Van Buren. He was gov- ernor of Alabama 1841-4.5; U.S. senator 1848-49 by appointment of Governor Chapman to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator D. H. Lewis, and again, 1853-61, having been appointed by Governor Collier in 1853 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator William R. King, elected vice-president of the United States. Senator Fitzpatrick was re-elected by the legis- lature of Ala- ^=^^^^^*^?#lf' bamainl855to . ^' ■ '..Ai a full term ex-

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I ' jr ■' - ^ "*♦■'■ ' 1861. He was

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gresses, from Dec. 7, 1857, to June 12, 1860. He was nominated the Democratic candidate for vice- president of the United States by the national convention held in Baltimore in 1860, but declined the nomination. Upon the secession of Alabama in 1861, Senator Fitzpatrick left the senate and returned to his home. At the close of the war he was president of the state constitutional con- vention, and after the new constitution was formed he retired to his plantation in Wetumpka, Ala., where he died Nov. 25, 1869.

FITZPATRICK, John Bernard, EC. bishop, was l)orn in Boston. Ma.ss., Nov. 1, 1812. He at- tended the Boston Latin school 1828-29, and Montreal college 1829-37, being professor of rhet- oric and helles-lHtres while pursuing his college course. He then studied at the Grand seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, 1837-39, and was ordained a priest at Paris. France, June 13. 1840. On his return to Boston he was first attached to the Cathedral, then was pastor at East Cambridge,

and on March 24, 1844, he was consecrated bishop of Galipolis and coadjutor to the bishop of Bos- ton. On the death of Bishop Fenvvick, Aug. 11, 1846, he became bishop of Boston. During the early part of his administration the cliurch suf- fered severe persecution and its churches and priests were assailed by mobs incited by anti-Catholic socie- ties. He was administrator scde racante of Hartford from June, 1849, to November, 1850. He visited Rome in June 1854 and was made domestic pi elate is sistant at the pontifit il tin one l)y the Pope,

and the same year obtained

from the Bos- ton school board a revoca- tion of rules obnoxious to Roman Catho- lic pupils. The diocese prospered under his direc- tion, and in 1853 the see of Burlington, and in 1855 that of Portland, were set off. The number of priests increased from forty to three hundred, churches in the same proportion and his work exhibited a fivefold increase in religious commu' nities. He died in Bo.stoii, Mass., Feb. 13, 1866.

FITZPATRICK, Thomas Young, representa- tive, was born in Floyd county, Ky., Sept. 20, 1850; son of Jacob and Pauline (Brown) Fitzpat- rick, and grandson of James Fitzpatrick and of George Brown. He was educated in the public schools and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He filled the positions of comity judge, county and circuit (!ourt clerk, county attorney, and repre- sentative in the state legislature. He was a Democratic presidential elector in 1884 and was a Democratic representative from Kentucky in the 55th and .56th congresses, 1897-1901.

FITZSIMONS, Thomas, representative, was bom in Ireland in 1741. He immigrated to America and became a merchant in Philadelphia. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he raised a company of volunteers which he com- manded during the war. He was a member of the Pennsylvania as-sembly, a delegate to the Continental congress 1782-83; to the constitu- tional convention of 1787, and a representative from Philadelphia in the 1st, 2d and 3d con- gresses, 1789-95. He was a member of the firm of George Meade & Co. which firm in 1780 .sub- scribed .£5000 toward supplying the Continental army with equipments. He was president of the Philadelphia chamber of commerce and of the North American insurance company. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in August, 1811.