Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick

Thomas Young Fitzpatrick (* September 20, 1850 in Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky, † January 21, 1906 in Frankfort, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Fitzpatrick attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1877 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. After that, he was for a time as District Judge. Between 1880 and 1884 he was district attorney.

Politically Fitzpatrick was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1876 and 1877 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathan T. Hopkins on March 4, 1897. After a re-election in 1898 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Fitzpatrick retired from politics. He died on January 21, 1906 in Frankfort, where he was also buried.