Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

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Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (October 3, 1927 - October 27, 2002) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Dover, New Hampshire, he graduated from Holy Cross College in 1950 and from Boston College Law School in 1953. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Portsmouth in 1955; he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army in 1946 and 1947 and again in 1953 and 1954. He was legal counsel to the New Hampshire Senate in 1957-1958, administrative assistant to Governor Wesley Powell from 1959 to 1961, and deputy attorney general and attorney general of New Hampshire in 1961.

Murphy was appointed on December 7, 1961, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. Styles Bridges and served until November 6, 1962; he was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1962 for election to the vacancy. He resumed the practice of law, was chairman of the board and general counsel of the Portsmouth (N.H.) Savings Bank from 1968 to 1988, and was a resident of Stratham, New Hampshire at the time of his death in 2002. Interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Greenland, New Hampshire.