{{Short description|American politician (1868–1908)}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick | image = Morgan C. Fitzpatrick (Tennessee Congressman).jpg | caption = From Volume V (1899) of the ''Southwestern School Journal'' magazine | state1 = Tennessee | district1 = 4th | term_start1 = March 4, 1903 | term_end1 = March 3, 1905 | preceded1 = Charles E. Snodgrass | succeeded1 = Mounce G. Butler | office2 = Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives | term2 = 1895-1899 | birth_date = {{birth date text|October 29, 1868}} | death_date = {{death date and age|June 25, 1908|October 29, 1868}} | birth_place = Smith County | death_place = Nashville, Tennessee | citizenship = {{US}} | spouse = Maggie Mae DeBow Fitzpatrick | children = | profession = {{ubl | Attorney | politician | newspaper editor }} | party = Democratic | alma_mater = Cumberland University | nickname = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = }} '''Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick''' (October 29, 1868 – June 25, 1908) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th congressional district of Tennessee.
==Biography== Fitzpatrick was born on October 29, 1868, near Carthage, Tennessee, in Smith County. He attended the common schools and Lebanon University, in Ohio, in 1887. In 1891, he graduated from the law department of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Hartville, Tennessee. He also edited a newspaper at Hartville. In 1894 he married Maggie Mae De Bow.<ref>{{cite book|title=Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick|date = January 1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S3GLWEaxpVYC&pg=PA116 |publisher=Alabama Biographical Dictionary|isbn = 9780403098118|access-date=30 April 2013}}</ref>
==Career== A member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Fitzpatrick served from 1895 to 1899. He served as speaker in 1897, having been elected on the first ballot over A.H. Pettibone. He was the state superintendent of public instruction from 1899 to 1903. He was chairman of the state Democratic executive committee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000176|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=30 April 2013}}</ref>
Fitzpatrick was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905,<ref>{{cite web|title=Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/morgan_fitzpatrick/404131|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|access-date=30 April 2013}}</ref> but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1904 and resumed the practice of law.
==Death== Fitzpatrick died in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 25, 1908 (age 39 years, 240 days). He is interred at Gallatin Cemetery in Gallatin, Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzpatrick.html|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=30 April 2013}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.state.tn.us/tsla/exhibits/blackhistory/legislation/50th.htm Tennessee State Library and Archives] *{{CongBio|F000176|name=FITZPATRICK, Morgan Cassius|inline=1}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep1900s.html Political Graveyard]
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