John Daniel FitzGerald was an Australian politician.

Born in Shellharbour

Shellharbour, New South Wales

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 to schoolteacher John Daniel FitzGerald and Mary Ann Cullen, he attended Shellharbour Public School, Fort Street Public School and St Mary's Cathedral School in Sydney

Sydney

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 before being apprenticed as a compositor in Bathurst

Bathurst, New South Wales

-CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...

. A founding member of the New South Wales Typographical Association, he served as its president from 1887 to 1888.On 26 May 1892 he married Octavie Camille Clara Ernestine Roche at Chelsea

Chelsea, London

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 in England

England

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, with whom he would have one daughter. In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 as the Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member for West Sydney

Electoral district of West Sydney

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; he was expelled from the party in 1893 and defeated in 1894. He later rejoined the party and in 1900 was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. He was a Sydney City Councillor

City of Sydney

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 from 1900 to 1904. In 1915 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council

New South Wales Legislative Council

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, serving as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1915–19), Minister for Public Health (1916–19), Minister for Local Government (1916–20), Minister for Justice and Solicitor-General (1919–20), Government Representative in the Legislative Council (1915–18), and Assistant Minister for Public Instruction (1916). In 1916 he left the Labor Party in the conscription

Conscription

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 split, joining the Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party of Australia

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. FitzGerald died at Darling Point

Darling Point, New South Wales

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in 1922.