Michael Fitzpatrick

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Category: Pennsylvania Republicans

Became an official United States Representative for the 8th District of Pennsylvania on January 4, 2005, appointed to the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Small Business. He lost his re-election bid to Patrick Murphy in 2006.

Fitzpatrick, 41, was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Bucks County from January 1995 to December 2005. He served as Chairman of the Board in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003, had direct responsibility for the adoption and administration of the county budget of $385 million and a workforce of approximately 2,600 employees.

Graduate of Bishop Egan High School in Lower Bucks County, Honors Degree (B.A. 1985) from St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida and a Law Degree (Juris Doctor 1988) from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, admitted to the practice of law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a member of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He served as Special Counsel at the Philadelphia law firm of Saul Ewing LLP.

Immediate Past President of the Bucks County Council, Boy Scouts of America and a member of the Temple Lower Bucks Hospital Board of Directors, the Conwell-Egan Catholic Board of Advisors, the Knights of Columbus, the Levittown Bristol Kiwanis Club, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Brehon Law Society.

Mike and his wife Kathleen have six children and reside in Middletown Township.

Fitzpatrick defeated Democrat Ginny Schrader in 2004.