Thomas Fitzsimons

Thomas Fitzsimons (* around 1741 in Ireland; † August 26, 1811 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Career

Thomas Fitzsimons immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. There he took a job as a clerk in a counting house at the so-called, a term that was formerly used for the accounting division of a company. During the later American Revolutionary War, he commanded a company of volunteers. He was also in 1782 and 1783 a member of the Continental Congress. After the war he was in 1786 and in 1787 a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also worked as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Fitzsimons was elected as a Pro- Administration candidate in the first U.S. Congress and reelected to the two succeeding U.S. Congresses. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1795. During his re-election attempt in 1794 to the 4th U.S. Congress, he suffered a defeat. In the following years he was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia, curator of the University of Pennsylvania and founder and director of the Bank of North America.

He died in 1811 in Philadelphia and was buried there on the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churchyard.