Alexis J. G. Fitzgerald was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Territorial Decoration and Senator in the 1980s.
Career
Fitzgerald stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election in Dublin Central, at the 1977 general election in Dublin South–Central, and at the 1981 general election in Dublin South. In the same year he was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. After his Dáil defeat, he stood again for election to the Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial Panel and was elected to the 17th Seanad.
He left the Seanad at the next election in 1987 and returned to his previous career as an auctioneer and estate agent.
He died in July 2015 at the age of 70. He died in July 2015.
Politics
Fitzgerald was finally elected to the Dáil at the February 1982 general election, when he replaced the retiring Fine Gael Territorial Decoration Richie Ryan as a running-mate of party leader Garret Fitzgerald (no relation) in the Dublin South–East constituency. He took his seat in the 23rd Dáil as a minority Fianna Fáil government took office under Charles Haughey, but after Haughey"s government fell later that year, Fitzgerald lost his Dáil seat to his Fine Gael colleague Joe Doyle at the November 1982 general election.