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{{Short description|Irish former politician (born 1936)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image         = James Fitzsimons.jpg
| caption       = Fitzsimons in 1984
| office        = [[Minister of State (Ireland)|Minister of State]]
| subterm       = Oct.–Dec. 1982
| suboffice     = [[Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport|Industry and Energy]]
| office2       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start2   = [[1977 Irish general election|June 1977]]
| term_end2     = [[1987 Irish general election|February 1987]]
| constituency2 = [[Meath (Dáil constituency)|Meath]]
| office3       = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start3   = [[1984 European Parliament election in Ireland|1 July 1984]]
| term_end3     = [[2004 European Parliament election in Ireland|24 May 2004]]
| constituency4 = [[Leinster (European Parliament constituency)|Leinster]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1936|12|16|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Navan]], [[County Meath]], Ireland
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| nationality   = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| party         = [[Fianna Fáil]]
| spouse        = 
| children      = 
| education     = [[St Patrick's Classical School]]
| alma_mater    = 
|}}
'''James Fitzsimons''' (born 16 December 1936) is an Irish former [[Fianna Fáil]] politician.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/James-N-Fitzsimons.D.1977-07-05/|title=James Fitzsimons|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-date=8 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108190544/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/James-N-Fitzsimons.D.1977-07-05|url-status=live}}</ref>

A publican from [[Navan]], [[County Meath]], he was educated at [[St Patrick's Classical School]] in Navan. Fitzsimons was elected to the [[21st Dáil]] as a Fianna Fáil [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Meath (Dáil constituency)|Meath]] constituency on his first attempt at the [[1977 Irish general election|1977 general election]],<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4187|title=Jim Fitzsimons|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-date=1 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001171916/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4187|url-status=live}}</ref> and re-elected until retiring at the [[1987 Irish general election|1987 general election]] to concentrate on his [[European Parliament]] seat. He was succeeded in the Dáil by [[Noel Dempsey]].

He was appointed as [[Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport|Minister of State at the Department of Industry and Energy]] on 28 October 1982 by the short-lived [[18th Government of Ireland|1982 Haughey Government]] in a reshuffle. The Dáil was dissolved on 4 November after the government lost a vote of confidence.

He was elected as an [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] at the [[List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 1984–1989|1984 European Parliament election]] and retained his seat for 20 years, until retiring at the [[2004 European Parliament election in Ireland|2004 European Parliament election]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{MEP|1443|Jim Fitzsimons}}

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