Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick

{{Short description|United States naval officer (1896–1974)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = [[Governor of American Samoa]] | term_start = January 15, 1936 | term_end = January 20, 1936 | lieutenant = | predecessor = [[Otto Carl Dowling]] | successor = [[MacGillivray Milne]] | birth_date = 1896 | birth_place = | death_date = 1974 | death_place = | party = | spouse = Pauline Case Fitzpatrick (1894-1977) | alma_mater = | occupation = Naval officer | signature = | signature_alt =  | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1912}} | branch = {{nowrap|[[File:United States Department of the Navy Seal.svg|30px|United States Navy Seal]]}} [[United States Navy]] | service_years = | rank = [[File:US-O5 insignia.svg|20px]] [[Commander (United States)#Naval rank|Commander]] | unit = | commands = {{USS|Zeilin|APA-3|6}} | battles = | awards = }}

'''Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick''' (1896 – 1974) was a [[United States Navy]] [[Commander (United States)#Naval rank|Commander]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gale Johnson Weds Paula Fitzpatrick|date=6 May 1956|work=[[The New York Times]]|pages=89|location=[[New York City]]}}</ref> and the [[governor of American Samoa]] for a brief time from January 15, 1936, to January 20, 1936. During [[World War II]], Fitzpatrick commanded {{USS|Zeilin|APA-3|6}}, which landed troops and sustained damage during the [[Battle of Tarawa]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/hyperwar/USN/ACTC/actc-18.html|title=That Real Toughie--Tarawa|last=Dyer|first=George|work=The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner|publisher=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]|pages=685|access-date=19 March 2010|location=[[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]}}</ref>

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