William Francis Murray

William Francis Murray ( born September 7, 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 21, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1914 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Murray attended the common schools and the Boston Latin School. During the Spanish- American War of 1898, he was a corporal in the U.S. Army. Then he studied until 1904 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and his 1906 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1904 and 1905 he sat on the city council of Boston; 1907-1908 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1910 he was a member of the staff of the governor.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Murray was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John A. Keliher on March 4, 1911. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on September 28, 1914 in Congress. Since 1913 he represented there as a successor of James Michael Curley the tenth district of his state. During his time in Congress, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Murray's resignation was after his appointment as head of the Postal Administration of Boston. This office he held until his death on 21 September 1918.