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- John Francis " Honey Fitz " Fitzgerald (February 11, 1863 – October 2, 1950) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. Fitzgerald served as mayor of Boston and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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John Francis " Honey Fitz " Fitzgerald (February 11, 1863 – October 2, 1950) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. Fitzgerald served as mayor of Boston and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
- From Poverty to Political Powerhouse
- A ‘Pixie Like Character’
- One Political Career Fizzles, Another Is Born
Fitzgerald was born in 1863, the son of poor Irish immigrants in the North End and the fourth of 12 children (three of whom died in infancy). His early friends knew him as “Johnnie Fitz” or “Fitzie,” historian Robert Dallek recalled in the Kennedy biography An Unfinished Life. According to the JFK National Historic Site, Fitzgerald was a competitiv...
By all accounts, Fitzgerald had an outgoing, colorful personality. “A pixie like character with florid face, bright eyes, and sandy hair, he was a showman who could have had a career in vaudeville,” Dallek wrote in his book. His demeanor eventually earned him the nickname “Honey Fitz,” as did his penchant for breaking into song at social events. Ac...
As mayor, Fitzgerald helped establish Fenway Park, where he threw the inaugural ceremonial first pitch in 1912, as well as the Franklin Park Zoo and the Boston Common’s Parkman Bandstand. But as the political futures of Honey Fitz’s descendants took root, his own began to unravel. After serving two nonconsecutive terms as mayor, Fitzgerald dropped ...
John Fitzgerald, known as “Fitzie” in his youth and “Honey Fitz” in later years, grew up in Boston’s North End and forced himself on the city’s Brahmin society.
- American Experience
Nov 6, 2017 · On this day in 1895, a colorful Irishman from Boston's North End, nicknamed "Honey Fitz" for his charming and loquacious ways, was elected to the U.S. Congress. Ten years later, John Francis Fitzgerald returned to Boston and ran for mayor. His victory rattled the Yankee establishment.
John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (Feb. 11, 1863-Oct. 2, 1950)-Mayor of Boston. Father of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and grandfather of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, and of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Oct 12, 2010 · As later recounted in a Globe story, James Fitzgerald and his reporting companion were greeted at the door by overwhelming elation: John would be elected Mayor of Boston.
John Francis “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald (1863-1950) was a Boston politician and grandfather to President Kennedy. Early in his life, fateful events led John Fitzgerald into politics. He served as a State Senator, a U.S. Congressman, and the first American-born Irish mayor of Boston, MA.
