Patrick Fitzgerald - any relation?

[Must_B_Free]

as in John Fitzgerald Kennedy?

[Straight Shooter]

1. Interesting question.

I don't know. Maybe some genealogy expert could tell you. Why not write or call Fitzgerald's office and ask his staff?

[crispini]

2. Not a direct one

Fitzgerald's parents, born on opposite sides of Ireland's County Clare, met in the United States. They raised their son in Flatbush and guided him to a scholarship at a Jesuit high school. He worked as a school janitor in Brooklyn to make money for college and spent summers opening doors at an upscale co-op building on East 72nd Street in Manhattan. (His father worked at a building on East 75th, just off Madison Avenue.) It is part of Fitzgerald lore that he bit his tongue when rich apartment dwellers talked down to him as "just the doorman.

-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1_2.html

[sattahipdeep]

3. Nominated by Bush. Appointed by Ashcroft.

Patrick J. Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney
for the Northern District of Illinois on September 1, 2001. Mr. Fitzgerald
was initially appointed on an interim basis by Attorney General John Ashcroft
before being nominated by President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed
his nomination by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001, and President Bush signed his
commission on October 29, 2001.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfizgerald.html

But only time will tell ...

Well only time will tell If you're gonna stand beside me through both heaven and
hell I wanna know that you're behind me.

[Must_B_Free]

4. That's scary...

very scary. They wouldn't intentionally enable anyone they didn't have an investment in.

[sattahipdeep]

5. Enlightenment is the key. n/t

[Zen Democrat]

7. Nixon's Justice Department appointed Archibald Cox.

And we all know what Archibald Cox did to that administration before Bork fired him.

[sattahipdeep]

11. In 1958 and 1959, Cox was an adviser to Sen. John F. Kennedy

during the 1960 presidential campaign, he worked full time on Kennedy's
campaign staff. On Christmas of that year, Kennedy telephoned to ask him
to be solicitor general.

When Bork, the solicitor general who had fired him as Watergate prosecutor, was
nominated by President George H.W. Bush to the Supreme Court, Cox steadfastly
refused to take a position on the controversial nomination.

If President Richard Nixon had had someone as hard-nosed as Patrick J. Fitzgerald
working for him in the early '70s, he could have stopped the Watergate investigation in its tracks.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2106812/

[seemslikeadream]

6. Kennedy's are from County Wexford

[sattahipdeep]

8. seemslikeadream

:hi: :hug:

[H2O Man]

9. I believe he is of the Desmond

division of the Mac Gerailt Clanna. There were two groups, both of which came to the island during the Anglo-Norman invasions. The Desmond group is a little larger; it is this group that holds the old titles in Kerry and Limerick, as a sub-group within the Great Clan of O'Sullivan. The Kennedy connection was from the Kildare group, made famous primarily by way of the "Rebellion of Silken Thomas (ordered executed by none other than Henry the 8th), and obviously the Kennedy era in the USA. I was talking to my daughters about Fitzgerald being very Irish earlier today. I think that, while he is neither democrat nor republican, he is an example of how the democratic left can connect with conservatives. (I'd put Wilson in the same group.) It indicates a far more open-minded stance than the republicans take.

[Cocoa]

10. which one is Ella Fitzgerald in?

I'm going with Kildare.

[KharmaTrain]

12. He Was Appointed Chicago Area Prosecutor by Peter Fitzgerald

The former Repugnican Senator...and, just like all the screwy Ryans, none are related.

At least the Democrats know how to be related and perpetuate power in Illinois...LOL.

Cheers...

[bucknaked]

13. That poor guy's name is just begging for an Irish name joke .

Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick?