James M. Fitzpatrick

James Martin Fitzpatrick (* June 27, 1869 in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, † April 10, 1949 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1945 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Martin Fitzpatrick was born about four years after the end of the civil war in Berkshire County. He attended public schools. He then worked in the iron ore mines in West Stockbridge. In 1891 he moved to New York City where he worked in various departments of the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company until 1925. Then he went to real estate transactions. He was in 1919 the Commissioner of Street Openings in New York City and 1919-1927 member of the Broad of aldermen of New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1926, for the 70th Congress Fitzpatrick was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin L. Fairchild on March 4, 1927. He was re-elected eight times in a row. Since he gave up a re-election bid in 1944, he retired after March 3, 1945 from the Congress. His time Congress was overshadowed by the Great Depression and the Second World War.

He died on April 10, 1949 in New York City and was buried in St. Raymond 's Cemetery.