Joseph Warner Murphy (21 December 1892 – 3 July 1977) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a farmer and lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Lambton West riding in the 1945 general election and served for five successive terms in Parliament until he was defeated in the 1962 federal election by Walter Frank Foy of the

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