Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 1999 to 2005. Fitzgerald def
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Fitzgerald with President George W. Bush on Air Force One in 2002
Fitzgerald with South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond
Fitzgerald attends a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in 2002.
The 1998 United States Senate election in Illinois was held November 3, 1998. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun decided to run for re-election, despite the number of controversies
Peter Fitzgerald (politician)
…senator from Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 1999 to 2005. Fitzgerald defeated Democratic incumbent Carol Moseley Braun in 1998, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in Illinois since Charles Percy twenty years earlier. He had previously served in the Illinois…
Sen. Carol Moseley Braun