Delbert Murphy

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Delbert Murphy

| image =

| state_senate = Kentucky

| district = 8th

| term_start = December 1967

| term_end = January 1, 1991

| predecessor = Wendell Ford

| successor = David Boswell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|03|08}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|04|26|1929|03|08}}

| death_place =

| party = Democratic

}}

Delbert S. Murphy (March 8, 1929 – April 26, 1995) was an American politician from Kentucky who was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1967 to 1991. Murphy was first elected in a December 1967 special election, following the resignation of incumbent senator Wendell Ford.{{cite news |date=December 20, 1967 |title=Democrat Wins Senate Seat Of Wendell Ford |work=The Lexington Herald |page=2}} He did not seek reelection in 1990.{{cite news |date=January 11, 1990 |title=Kentucky Republicans get pep talk from Bush |work=The Lexington Herald-Leader |page=B2}}

On June 15, 1972, Murphy was one of seven Democratic senators that voted against Kentucky's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.{{cite news |last=Pardue |first=Anne |date=June 16, 1972 |title=Kentucky becomes 19th to ratify equal rights for women amendment |work=The Courier Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |page=1}}

Murphy died in April 1995 at age 66.{{cite news |date=April 29, 1995 |title=Ex-state sen. Delbert Murphy dies in Owensboro at age 66 |work=The Lexington Herald-Leader |page=C2}}