Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (February 5, 1926 – August 28, 2013) was an American business executive from Wisconsin and was a key figure in bringing major league baseball back to Milwaukee in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970.

Early life and education Fitzgerald was born in 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended the Milwaukee Country Day School, the Deerfield Academy and the University of Michigan.

Political and other endeavors Fitzgerald served as Industry Advisory Council to the U.S. Department of Defense and was President of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. He served on President Ronald Reagan's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and was a life trustee and chairman on the Committee for Economic Development. Due to his efforts to improve trade relations between the United States and Japan, Fitzgerald was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class. He also served as a member of the U.S.-Korea Wisemen Council.

Family

Fitzgerald's father, also named Edmund Fitzgerald (1895–1986), was a civic leader who served as chairman of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was the eponym for the Great Lakes ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald, popularized in the 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. His grandfather, William E. Fitzgerald (1859–1901), was a famous shipbuilder, and his maternal grandfather Frank R. Bacon (1872–1949) co-founded Cutler-Hammer.

Edmund B. Fitzgerald died in Nashville, Tennessee on August 28, 2013, and was buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.