Background
Fitzgerald, William Thomas was born on October 13, 1858 in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Son of Ezekiel and Mary (Bishop) Fitzgerald.
United States representative politician
Fitzgerald, William Thomas was born on October 13, 1858 in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Son of Ezekiel and Mary (Bishop) Fitzgerald.
Born in Greenville, Ohio, Fitzgerald attended the rural schools and the Greenville High School. He graduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887.
He taught in the Greenville High School 1886-1889. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, in 1891 and commenced practice in Greenville in 1891. He served as mayor of Greenville 1921-1925.
Fitzgerald was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions (Seventieth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.
He resumed the practice of medicine in Greenville, Ohio, where he died on January 12, 1939. He was interred in Greenville Cemetery.
Member 69th and 70th Congresses (1925-1929), 4th Ohio District. Member Ohio National Guard, 1875-1882. Member Ohio State Medical Association, Darke Company Medical Society.
Member Tribe of Ben Hur.
Married Mary Catherine Dininger, of Greenville, November 16, 1882. Children: Maude (Mistress Benj.