William P. Murphy (judge), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About William P. Murphy (judge)
- William P.
- Murphy (July 6, 1898 – April 22, 1986) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1955 to 1972. Born in St.
- Cloud, Minnesota, Murphy graduated from Cathedral High School in St.
- Cloud, Minnesota, a parochial school in St.
- Cloud.
- He then received his law degree from St.
- Paul College of Law, a predecessor to the William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- He practiced law in St.
- Cloud and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- He then worked in the legal department of the Capitol Trust & Savings Bank in St.
- Paul between 1922 and 1924, and was in private practice in St.
- Cloud from then until 1939.
- In 1939, he became an assistant U.S.
- attorney, and from 1952 he served as regional director of the Office of Price Stabilization.Murphy left government service in 1953 to practice with a St.
- Paul law firm.
- In 1955, Governor Orville Freeman appointed him to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
- Murphy left the court in 1972, and in 1975, the Security and Exchange Commission appointed Murphy a special agent to assess allegations of secret corporation contributions to the reelection campaign of President Richard M.
- Nixon. Murphy died in Hastings, Minnesota.
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