Gordon Howard "Paddy" Fitzgerald (January 19, 1927 – May 1, 2014) was a Canadian politician in the province of Nova Scotia.
In 1969, he was appointed Speaker and served until the 1970 provincial election in which the Conservative government was defeated and Fitzgerald lost his seat.
[3] In 1978, he was convicted for falsifying tax return forms,[4] and was disbarred by the Nova Scotia Barristers Society for fraud.
[5] Fitzgerald attempted a political comeback in the 1993 provincial election and contested the Progressive Conservative nomination in Dartmouth South to run against Liberal leader John Savage.
He won the nomination by a margin of 29 votes to 25 votes for his opponent, Dartmouth city councillor Colin May[2] but Conservative Premier Donald Cameron refused to sign Fitzgerald's nomination papers due to Fitzgerald's rape conviction.