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| Name | John W. Murphy |
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Scranton, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 26, 1902
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| Died | March 28, 1962
(59 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Luzerne County Historian
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| Info | MURPHY, John William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Avoca, Luzerne County, Pa., April 26, 1902; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1926 and from the law department of the same university in 1929; was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced practice in Scranton, Pa., assistant district attorney of Lackawanna County 1934-1941; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation on July 17, 1946, to become judge of the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania; became chief judge in June 1955, in which capacity he served until his death in Scranton, Pa., March 28, 1962; interment in St. Catherine’s Cemetery, Moscow, Pa.
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