Gordon H. Fitzgerald

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Gordon Howard Fitzgerald
Halifax Northwest
In office
1960–1967
Preceded byRonald Manning Fielding
Succeeded byriding abolished
MLA for Halifax Cobequid
In office
1967–1970
Preceded bynew riding
Succeeded byGeorge Riley
Personal details
Born(1927-01-19)January 19, 1927
Cochrane, Ontario
DiedMay 1, 2014(2014-05-01) (aged 87)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Political partyProgressive Conservative
ResidenceHalifax, Nova Scotia
OccupationLawyer

Gordon Howard "Paddy" Fitzgerald (January 19, 1927 – May 1, 2014) was a Canadian politician in the province of Nova Scotia. He was a former Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Fitzgerald was born in Cochrane, Ontario.[1]

Political career

A lawyer by profession,

Halifax Northwest for the Progressive Conservative and was re-elected in 1963. In 1967 he was elected in the new riding of Halifax Cobequid. In 1969, he was appointed Speaker and served until the 1970 provincial election
in which the Conservative government was defeated and Fitzgerald lost his seat.

Legal career

Following his defeat, Fitzgerald returned to his legal practice and was one of the province's top trial lawyers in the 1970s.

disbarred by the Nova Scotia Barristers Society for fraud.[5] In 1980, he was convicted of raping a female client in his office and sentenced to five years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1981 after serving ten months of his sentence[6] and was pardoned in 1992.[4]

In 1982, Fitzgerald was awarded a five-month $15,000 contract by the

Nova Scotia Liquor Commission to study proposed changes to the Liquor Control Act. The appointment was met with outrage by the Opposition in the House of Assembly and he resigned the appointment.[5]

Attempted political comeback

Fitzgerald attempted a political comeback in the

Donald Cameron refused to sign Fitzgerald's nomination papers due to Fitzgerald's rape conviction. May was awarded the nomination instead.[2][7]

Death

Fitzgerald died on May 1, 2014, at a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 87.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary for Gordon Howard FitzGerald "PADDY" at Dartmouth Funeral Home". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Ex-con denied Tory label". Canadian Press. April 30, 1993.
  3. ^ "Fitzgerald Pardoned". Financial Post. September 22, 1992.
  4. ^ a b "Ex-politician wins rape charge pardon". Toronto Star. September 22, 1992.
  5. ^ a b "Family hardship cited, ousted lawyer, rapist quits N. S. liquor post". Globe and Mail. March 2, 1982.
  6. ^ "Government job for ex-MLA rapist upsets opposition". Globe and Mail. February 27, 1982.
  7. ^ "Odd meets bizarre in campaign zone". Globe and Mail. May 15, 1993.
  8. ^ "Paddy Fitzgerald, former MLA and Speaker, dies at 87". The Chronicle Herald. May 7, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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