John Porry Murray (July 14, 1830 – December 21, 1895) was an American politician who served in the

Confederate States Congress The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly/legislature of the Confederate States of America that existed from February 1861 to April/June 1865, during the American Civil War. Its actions were, ...

during the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

. Murray was born in Gainesboro, Jackson County,

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

. He was a state court judge in 1857 and represented the state in the

Second Confederate Congress The 2nd Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia ...

from 1864 to 1865. Colonel of the 28th Tennessee Infantry Regiment and the 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Murray's).

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Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Tennessee People from Gainesboro, Tennessee Tennessee lawyers Tennessee Democrats 1830 births 1895 deaths 19th-century American lawyers {{Tennessee-politician-stub