John Fitzgibbons

John Fitzgibbons (* July 10, 1868 in Oneida County, New York; † August 4, 1941 in Buffalo, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1870 John Fitzgibbons came to Oswego where he attended the public schools. In 1885 he began to work for the railroad. Between 1896 and 1914, and from 1915 to 1933 he was the representative of the workers' union of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in New York State. In between, he was in the years 1914 and 1915 the Ministry of Labour conciliator his state. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. Between 1908 and 1909 he was a member of the council of Oswego; in the years 1910 and 1911 and 1918-1921 he was mayor of this place. In the years 1920, 1924 and 1932, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Fitzgibbons was in a state-wide electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Fitzgibbons worked for the railway workers' movement in Buffalo. There he is on 4 August 1941, died.