Early Life
Fitzgerald graduated from high school and attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and the Notre Dame in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, where he earned a bachelor's degree in naval science in 1947. He also holds honorary Ph.D.s from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and Baldwin-Wallace College. He married Marilyn Cullen of Janesville on August 1, 1950 at Notre Dame's Old College Chapel. In 1952, he was called up for service in the Korean War as Navy paymaster on the USS Siboney (CVE-112), stationed in Norfolk, Virginia.
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