My name is John Fitzgerald and  I’m running for State Representative in this November’s election.  I'm a first-generation American, one of four children of Irish parents who came to this country in 1954.  I attended twelve years of Catholic school and, after graduation, spent five years in the US Navy as an air traffic controller.  My enlistment ended in June 1986, and seven months later, I began a 27-year career as an air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), serving in Hyannis, MA; Martha's Vineyard, MA; Manchester, NH and Nashua, NH.  While working for the FAA, I held a number of positions in the National Air Traffic Controllers' Association (NATCA), the labor organization which represents the nation's air traffic controllers.  I've served as a union local President, Vice-Presdent  and, for seventeen years I administered the six New England states while serving on the National Legislative Committee of NATCA.  I'm a thirty-three year resident of New Hampshire; twenty of them here in Bedford.  I'm a certified arbitration advocate, and have served on the Boards of Villa Augustina Grammar School in Goffstown and Bedford Little League.  Since March 2022, I've made five trips to Poland and Ukraine to deliver humanitarian aid to the victims of that brutal, senseless war.
However, the achievements I am most proud of, though, are being the husband of my beautiful wife, Cindy, and the father of our two wondeful kids, one of whom just graduated from UNH in June of 2024, the other starts UNH this fall.