US Congressman. He was born one of five children (he also had four brothers) on September 20, 1850, near Prestonburg, Floyd County, Kentucky, to Jacob Fitzpatrick and his wife Polina Brown Fitzpatrick. He was educated locally and attended the common schools. He then studied law and served as a Frankfort County Judge from 1874 to 1875. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and began his practice of law in Frankfort, Kentucky. During that time he had entered politics and served as a Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1876 to 1877. He also served as a Member of the Kentucky State Legislature in 1880, and as a Frankfort County Judge from 1880 to 1884. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Kentucky's 10th District (Fifty-Fifth Congress and Fifty-Sixth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1901. After his term in the United States Congress expired he was succeeded in office by United States Representative James Bamford White on March 4, 1901. After leaving the United States Congress he resumed his practice of law until his death. He passed away on January 21, 1906, at the age of 54, in Frankfort, Kentucky, of heart disease following a lingering illness. He was buried in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. He was married to Narcissa South in 1883, the daughter of Colonel Jere South and the aunt of the United States Congressman South Trimble, who represented the State of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from April 4, 1911, to May 18, 1919, and again from December 7, 1931, until his death on November 23, 1946. The couple had a daughter named Eva in 1885. His wife Narcissa died in 1901 and his daughter Eva died in 1958, and they are both buried near him in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky.