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He was born on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C. , the second of four children and the first son of James Nicholas Fitzpatrick, a financial clerk employed by the United States Senate, and Elizabeth Ann (Combs) Fitzpatrick.
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He was born on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C. , the second of four children and the first son of James Nicholas Fitzpatrick, a financial clerk employed by the United States Senate, and Elizabeth Ann (Combs) Fitzpatrick.
His family was Roman Catholic, and he attended local parochial and public schools, graduating from the Washington High School in 1894 as president of his class. In school he showed talent both in writing and drawing, with a strong bent for historical subjects.
After three years in journalism, first as a reporter and then on the business staff of the weekly U. S. Government Advertiser, Fitzpatrick entered the service of the Library of Congress, soon after his uncle-in-law, John Russell Young, became Librarian in 1897.
Within a month he was assigned to the newly established Manuscripts Division.
He became indispensable to the successive chiefs of this division, the first of whom recommended him for promotion, noting his exemplary character, assiduous habits, and "unusual intelligence and discrimination. " Fitzpatrick's popular, authoritative, and pioneer brochure, Notes on the Care, Cataloguing, Calendaring and Arranging of Manuscripts, issued and reissued from 1913 to 1934, recorded his accumulated experience.
Until 1917 he was chiefly occupied in compiling excellent calendars of manuscripts, mainly on George Washington and the formative national period. He was largely responsible for two 1918 guides, a Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress and a check list of collections in other United States repositories.
He edited The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1920), four volumes of the journals of the Continental Congress, and a four-volume edition of the diaries of Washington. Rejected for military service during World War I because of deafness, Fitzpatrick applied his artistic talent in designing posters for government agencies; he was later (1932) responsible for reviving the military decoration of the Purple Heart, originated by General Washington.
He was a prodigious worker and a "charming Irishman, " hearty, generous, and witty. Known as Dr. Fitzpatrick after receiving the first of two honorary doctorates (from George Washington University in 1926 and from Washington and Lee in 1932), he enjoyed worldwide recognition and was highly regarded by fellow workers and library clientele.
During extended periods he had full responsibility for conducting the affairs of the Manuscripts Division, but he was not promoted to acting chief until 1927. There were those who urged strongly that he be appointed chief of the Division, a position which had been substantially enhanced that year by the establishment of the "Chair of American History, " providing the occupant with an endowed honorarium in addition to his regular salary.
But Herbert Putnam, who had succeeded John Russell Young as Librarian of Congress, declined to appoint Fitzpatrick, feeling that the position required a historian with a broader knowledge of history, particularly European, and of the sources of American history in Europe. To Fitzpatrick this was the culmination of years of minor injustices, and he resigned in the summer of 1928.
He then took the assignment for which he became best known, as editor, for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, of the collected writings of Washington. If Fitzpatrick's practical self-training, intensive specialization, and intimate knowledge of manuscripts had not sufficiently equipped him for advancement in the Library of Congress, they made him "on all accounts the right man" for this editorial task. His high professional reputation is based upon his monumental edition of these writings in thirty-nine volumes (1931 - 44), a remarkable accomplishment in view of his small staff, his other historical writings during this period, and the frequent calls upon him for extra services made by the Bicentennial Commission.
His failure to receive appointment as the first Archivist of the United States in 1934 was another major disappointment.
He died of a heart attack and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Appointed by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission he prevailed over the editorship in the acclaimed 39 volume work, The Writings of George Washington, published between 1931 and 1944. His involvement during this prolonged effort set many of the standards for the management of manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Fitzpatrick died before all the volumes had been published. He belonged to a number of historical societies while also earning honorary degrees from several prominent universities. Fitzpatrick's years of correspondence and other records have provided historians and with another valuable source of information on the life of and events surrounding George Washington, and on the history of Washington D. C. for that era.
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His family was Roman Catholic.
Fitzpatrick was active in club and professional organizations. He was a member and served as president of the American Catholic Historical Association in 1928-29.
He married twice, in 1908 and 1922. His first wife, an artist, Louise Tracy Hull, died in 1911. By his second wife, a librarian, Elizabeth Veronica Kelly, who died in 1933, he had his only child, Elizabeth Lavery.
