John Francis Fitzgerald was born in Boston on February 11, 1863, the fourth child of Irish businessman and politician Thomas Fitzgerald from Co Limerick and Rosanne, a native of Co Cavan.

John F. Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston, 1906. Library of Congress Fitzgerald’s natural loquaciousness prepared him well for the insurance business and local politics.

“[Fitzgerald] was very much concerned about young John being a candidate for public office,” John F. Cahill, the chair of the state Democratic Party at the time, later said in a 1967 interview.

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Known as “Fitzie” in his youth and “Honey Fitz” in later years, John Fitzgerald was the father of Rose who would marry a young Irish American banker, Joseph P. Kennedy.