Joseph Richard Murphy (September 10, 1880 – October 16, 1944) was a Canadian politician. He represented the
electoral district
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of
Halifax South in the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly
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The assembly is ...
from 1940 to 1944. He was a member of the
Nova Scotia Liberal Party
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.
Murphy was born in 1880 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was educated at
Ampleforth College
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, England.
He married Marcelle Grace Butler in 1906, and was a wholesale dry goods and clothing manufacturer by career.
Murphy entered provincial politics on October 28, 1940, winning a byelection for the Halifax South riding by acclamation.
[ He was re-elected in the 1941 election.]
References
1880 births
1944 deaths
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs
People educated at Ampleforth College
20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
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