James William Murphy

James William Murphy ( born April 17, 1858 in Platteville, Wisconsin, † July 11, 1927 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Murphy attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1873, the Platteville State Normal School. In the following five years he taught as a teacher in Grant County and Lafayette County. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar he began in 1880 in Platteville in this profession work. Between 1887 and 1891 he served as District Attorney in Grant County. In 1904 to 1906 he was mayor of the city of Platteville.

Murphy was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1907 the successor of Joseph W. Babcock. Since he Republican Arthur W. Kopp defeated in the elections of 1908, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1909.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives James Murphy practiced as a lawyer again. In addition, he went into business with lead and zinc mines. In 1920, he competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on July 11, 1927 in Rochester, and was buried in Platteville.