John Murphy (Alabama politician)
{{short description|Governor of Alabama (1825–1829)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = John Murphy
| image = John murphy.jpg
| order = 4th
| office = Governor of Alabama
| term_start = November 25, 1825
| term_end = November 25, 1829
| predecessor = Israel Pickens
| successor = Gabriel Moore
| state2 = Alabama
| district2 = 5th
| term_start2 = March 4, 1833
| term_end2 = March 3, 1835
| predecessor2 = District created
| successor2 = Francis Strother Lyon
| office3 = Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
| term3 = 1820
| office4 = Member of the Alabama Senate
| term4 = 1822
| birth_date = 1786
| birth_place = Columbia, North Carolina, U.S.
| death_date = September 21, {{death year and age|1841|1786}}
| death_place = Clarke County, Alabama, U.S.
| resting_place = Murphy Plantation, Gosport, Alabama, U.S.
| education = College of South Carolina
| party = Democrat
| spouse =
| profession =
}}
John Murphy (1786 – September 21, 1841) was the fourth Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama, serving two terms from 1825 to 1829.
Biography
=Early life=
John Murphy was born in 1786 in Robeson County, North Carolina. He attended South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of the Clariosophic Society.[http://digital.library.schreiner.edu/sldl/sl/153index.html South Carolina College: Clariosophic Society, Catalogue of Members in 1842, Lanham Digital Library of Hill Country History at Logan Library] at Schreiner University {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711191503/http://digital.library.schreiner.edu/sldl/sl/153index.html |date=2010-07-11 }} Among his classmates at South Carolina College were John Gayle and James Dellet. Gayle also became Governor of Alabama while Dellet became a U.S. Congressman from Alabama.[http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1466 John Murphy (1825-29) in the encyclopedia of Alabama] Murphy graduated in 1808.
=Career=
He became a clerk at the South Carolina Senate. He was a trustee for the University of South Carolina from 1808 to 1818.{{cite web| url= http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/g_murphy.html |title= Alabama Governors: John Murphy |publisher= Alabama Department of Archives and History |access-date=2012-06-27}}
In 1818, he moved to Alabama and was elected to the Alabama House in 1820 and the Alabama Senate in 1822. He was elected Governor of Alabama in 1824, and in 1827 he was elected for a second term. He represented Alabama in the United States House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835.
=Personal life=
Under the date of April 2, 1834, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Congressman James Blair "shot himself last evening at his lodgings ... after reading part of an affectionate letter from his wife, to Governor Murphy, of Alabama, who was alone in the chamber with him, and a fellow-lodger at the same house." Diary (New York: Longmans, Green, 1929) p. 434.
=Death=
He died in 1841 in Clarke County, Alabama.{{citation needed |date=April 2023}} Murphy was buried in Gosport.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-clarke-county-democrat-gov-john-mur/122526919/ |title=Gov. John Murphy |date=1905-09-07 |newspaper=The Clarke County Democrat |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2023-04-08}}{{Open access}}
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Category:University of South Carolina alumni
Category:Democratic Party governors of Alabama
Category:People from Robeson County, North Carolina
Category:Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
Category:Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives
Category:Democratic Party Alabama state senators
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
Category:19th-century members of the Alabama Legislature
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