Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor FitzGerald, of Dubuque, Iowa, became the ninetieth president of the Association at the 1953 meeting in Cleveland. Doctor FitzGerald, an oral surgeon, served as president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons (two terms), the Iowa Dental Association and the Dubuque Dental Society. He was a founding member of the American Board of Oral Surgery and was its executive secretary-treasurer for 22 years. In the American Dental Association, Doctor FitzGerald served as a member of the House of Delegates and as chairman of the Committee on Economics, the Section on Oral Surgery and the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Research and Statistics. He was born in Iowa in 1898 and died in 1971.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald" (1977). ADA Presidents. 38.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/38
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Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.