Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr.

Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr. ( born July 18, 1893 in Austin, Nevada; † September 15, 1979 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Utah in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Murdock was still a child when his parents moved with him in 1898 from Nevada to Utah, where the family settled in Beaver. There he attended the public school and a private school, before he took a law degree at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Upon successful completion, he was admitted to the bar and started to work as a lawyer in Beaver.

His first political steps made ​​Abe Murdock, as he was usually called, as a member of the City Council of Beaver 1920-1921. As a prosecutor, of Beaver County, he served from 1923 to 1924, from 1927 to 1928 as well as 1931 until 1932. Attorney of Beaver, he was 1926-1933. , the Democratic Party nominated him in 1928 as District Attorney of the fifth district of Utah, but he lost the election.

But he succeeded in 1933, the entry into the U.S. House of Representatives, to whom he should belong in the next eight years. 1940, Murdock will not seek re-election because he ran for the U.S. Senate and asserted itself here. After a six -year term, he had the Senate on 3 January 1947 leave because he had failed in the re-election on the Republican Arthur Vivian Watkins.

As a result, Murdock worked as a lawyer again; he also devoted himself to agriculture and animal husbandry. From 1947 to 1957 he was a member of the National Labor Relations Board, an independent U.S. government agency that monitored compliance with fair working conditions. In a similar function in 1960 he was again engaged in an authority that was active in the field of nuclear energy.