Date of Birth: 27/07/1879
Place of Birth: Sunville near Dungog, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 18/12/1963
Place of Death: Dungog, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member for Gloucester |
21 Mar 1959 |
05 Feb 1962 |
2 years 10 months 16 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
03 Mar 1956 |
16 Feb 1959 |
2 years 11 months 14 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
14 Feb 1953 |
05 Feb 1956 |
2 years 11 months 23 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
17 Jun 1950 |
14 Jan 1953 |
2 years 6 months 29 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
03 May 1947 |
22 May 1950 |
3 years 20 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
27 May 1944 |
29 Mar 1947 |
2 years 10 months 3 days |
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| Member for Gloucester |
10 May 1941 |
24 Apr 1944 |
2 years 11 months 15 days |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
10 May 1941 |
05 Feb 1962 |
20 years 8 months 27 days |
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Qualifications, occupations and interests
Dairy farmer. Educated at Dungog public school; left school at sixteen to work on father's dairy farm, which continued to run after father's death in 1900; owned six farms run on a sharefarmer basis and some grazing property at death; director of Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory from 1908 until 1963; president of Agricultural Society; president of Dungog School of Arts; member of Primary Producers' Union from 1918 until 1963; foundation president of Dungog branch, delegate to central executive from 1926 until 1963, life member in 1961, president of Lower Hunter and Gloucester district council for many years; councillor of Junior Farmers; president of Dungog Hospital Board in 1930; Jersey cattle judge.
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Alderman at Dungog from 1901 until 1942, Mayor from 1909 until 1910, 1912 until 1915, 1920 until 1921, 1932 until 1935, 1937 until 1942; Wallarobba Shire from 1931 until 1950, president.
Personal
Son of Patrick Fitzgerald, dairy farmer. Unmarried. Roman Catholic. Funeral at Dungog cemetery from St Mary's Roman Catholic church.
