Walter Francis Murphy, Jr. (November 21, 1929 – April 20, 2010) was a 20th century American political scientist and writer.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel. He held the chair of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. His professional writing, consisting mostly of non-fiction works on political science, included the classic Constitutional Democracy; he has also wrote three popular novels.
Murphy's name was on the “Selectee List”[1][2].