Morgan F. Murphy

Morgan Francis Murphy ( born April 16, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1971 and 1981 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Morgan Murphy attended the common schools and then studied until 1955 at Northwestern University in Evanston. Between 1955 and 1957 he served in the Marine Corps. He was employed for a year in the Far East. Between 1958 and 1961 he was a Clerk at the District Court in Chicago. After studying law at the DePaul University School of Law and his 1962 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. In 1968 he represented, among others, the Association of milkmen of Chicago during a strike. He also worked for the union of the milk truck driver. In the years 1969 and 1970 he worked for the local alcohol control commission. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1968 and 1972 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1970, Murphy was the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William T. Murphy on January 3, 1971. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 five legislative sessions. Since 1973 he represented there as a successor of Abner J. Mikva of the second district of his state. During his time in Congress fell among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. That was when the civil rights movement.

In 1980, Morgan Murphy gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Later he got indirectly in the headlines because his partner was convicted of criminal offenses.