Jeremiah Henry Murphy

Jeremiah Henry Murphy ( born February 19, 1835 in Lowell, Massachusetts, † December 11, 1893 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1849, Jeremiah Murphy moved with his parents in the Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Three years later the family settled in Iowa County, Iowa down. Murphy first attended the public schools in Boston and then the University Appleton, Wisconsin. Then he studied until 1857 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1858 admitted to the bar he began in Marengo to work in his new profession. In this place, he was also elected to the council in 1860.

Murphy was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1864 and 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. In 1867 he moved his residence and his law firm to Davenport. In 1873 and 1878 he was mayor of that city. Between 1874 and 1878, Murphy sat in the Senate of Iowa. In 1876, he ran unsuccessfully for the first time the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. In the congressional elections of 1882 Murphy but was elected in the second district of Iowa in Congress. There he met on March 4, 1883 is the successor of the Republican Sewall S. Farwell, whom he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1884 he was able to complete two terms in 1887 the House of Representatives until March 3. In 1886, he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After the end of his time in Congress to Jeremiah Murphy withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Washington. There he is also deceased in December 1893. He was buried in Davenport.