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He was called to the Quebec bar in 1856 and founded the firm of Fitzpatrick & Taschereau in Quebec City.

In 1885 he acted as chief counsel to Louis Riel who was on trial for leading the North-West Rebellion. Riel was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Fitzpatrick entered politics in 1890 winning election to the Quebec Legislative Assembly.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 Canadian election as a Liberal MP and served as Solicitor General of Canada from 1896Events January 4 Utah is admitted as the 45th U. January 5 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 H. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 The X-ray machine is exhib to 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage and as Minister of JusticeMinister of Justice of Canada is the minister in the Cabinet of Canada who is responsible for the Department of Justice and is also Attorney General of Canada . The current Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada is Irwin Cotler. Related Link L from 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage until 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of CanadaOttawa The Supreme Court of Canada is Canada's highest court and is located in the capital city of Ottawa. It is now the final court of appeal, the last judicial resort for all litigants, whether individual or governmental. Its jurisdiction embraces both as Chief Justice and served in that position until 1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of QuebecThis is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian province of Quebec. For governors preceding the 1759 British conquest see Governor of New France. Governors of Quebec from the Conquest to the creation of Lower Canada Quebec was conquered by the Brit.

He is the only Chief Justice other than Sir William Buell Richards to have served in that position without having first been an Associate Justice on the court, Richards having been Chief Justice at the court's creation in 1875.

He died on June 17th, 1942.