John Fitzgibbons

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John Fitzgibbons (July 10, 1868 - August 4, 1941) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Glenmore, Oneida County, he moved to Oswego in 1870. He attended the public schools, was employed as a railway trainman in 1885, served as legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of New York State from 1896 to 1914 and again from February 1915 until January 1, 1933, and served as referee for the New York State Labor Bureau in 1914 and 1915. He was an alderman of Oswego in 1908 and 1909, mayor of Oswego in 1910, 1911, and from 1918 to 1921, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1932.

Fitzgibbons was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress, holding office from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1935; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress. He engaged as legislative representative for the Railroad Brotherhoods in Albany until his death in a Buffalo hospital in 1941; interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery, Oswego.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress