Biography of 	Fitzpatrick, Andrew Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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Andrew Fitzpatrick.  This young and enterprising business man and attorney of
the Crescent city, was born in New Orleans in 1866.  He is the only son of
Andrew J. and Ellen (Cummings) Fitzpatrick.  His mother is a native of New
Orleans and the daughter of Patrick Cummings.  Andrew J. Fitzpatrick was a
native of Tully, County Kildare, Ireland, and was born on March 14, 1837.  He
died on July 15,~ 1887, leaving behind a reputation for unblemished
characteristics worthy of the emulation of all true-hearted, public-spirited
citizens.  Mr. Fitzpatrick was indeed a true man and gentleman, renowned for
sterling integrity, unflinching perseverance, judiciousness of judgment, and a
fearless determination of purpose.  In 1872 he went into the hide business as a
member of the firm of Fitzpatrick & Hall, hide and wool dealers.  All his
business ventures were successful, and he became well known as a correct
financier, who championed questions affecting the public weal with the same
ardor and good judgment as he pursued in business concerns.  He was repeatedly
proffered public preferments, and in 1882 accepted election as alderman from the
First ward, retiring at the close of the Behan administration.  As a councilman
he was always on the alert, spending much time and even his own means for the
good of New Orleans.  Mr. Fitzpatrick is well represented by his intelligent
family. His three daughters and one son were well educated and stand high in
their native city.  His son, Andrew Fitzpatrick, is a rising young man of New
Orleans.  He graduated from the Jesuit college in the classical course in 1884
with the degree of A. B., and distinguished himself by carrying off nearly all
first-place premiums.  He subsequently pursued a course in law in Tulane
university, graduating with the degree of LL. B. in 1886.  During the same year
he received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater.  He immediately entered the
practice of law, and after a year's professional work, in which he received
diplomatic handling of cases, and manifested abilities to become a jurist of the
highest order, his father's death occurred, and he relinquished his practice and
became his father's successor in business.  Since he assumed charge of it the
firm name has been changed from Fitzpatrick & Hall to Fitzpatrick & Co., and the
business has been extended even beyond its former bounds.  Mr. Andrew
Fitzpatrick is marked for his intellectual culture, genial disposition, high
social qualities, business capabilities and keen insight into public affairs. 
At the age of twenty-one years he was chosen as a member of the gubernatorial
convention that nominated Francis T. Nicholls for governor.  In 1888 he was
tendered the nomination for member of legislature from the First ward by the
Young Men's Democratic association, which was successful, but declined to accept
it.  He became a candidate as delegate to the gubernatorial nominating
convention in November, 1891, but was defeated because of his opposition to the
Louisiana lottery.  He was appointed by the governor as a delegate to represent
Louisiana in the trans-Mississippi commercial congress, consisting of all states
and territories west of the Mississippi river, held on May 19, 1891, in the city
of Denver, Colo.  Mr. Fitzpatrick and all his family are consistent members of
the Catholic church, and he is a member of the Catholic Knights of America.  He
was delegated by the Catholics of Louisiana and the alumni association of the
Jesuits' college to represent them in the American Catholic congress that met in
Baltimore, Md., November 11, 1889.  0n Wednesday, May 11, 1892, he was elected
president of the Irish-American club, one of the largest and most influential
clubs in New Orleans.  He was tendered the nomination to the state legislature
and city council to represent the Anti Lottery league in April, 1892, but
declined to accept.  He is a member of the chamber of commerce of New Orleans.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 416.  Published
by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.