John Warner Fitzgerald

John Warner Fitzgerald (November 14, 1924–July 7, 2006) was an American lawyer, member of the Michigan Senate, and justice (and later chief justice) of the Michigan Supreme Court. Life Fitzgerald was born in Grand Ledge, Michigan, on November 14, 1924. He was born to a political family; he was the grandson of John Wesley Fitzgerald, a Michigan state representative from Eaton County (1895–96) and the son of Frank Dwight Fitzgerald, governor of Michigan from 1935–1936 and 1939, and Queena Warner Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald graduated from Grand Ledge High School in 1942. Fitzgerald served in the U.S. Army infantry during World War II. He received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1947 and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1954. He also studied at Princeton University and the University of Arizona. Fitzgerald was the legal counsel for the Michigan State Senate from 1955 until 1958. In 1958, Fitzgerald was elected to the Michigan State Senate, where he served until 1962.