John Murphy (Alabama)

John Murphy (Alabama)

Infobox Governor
name = John Murphy


order = 4th
office = Governor of Alabama
term_start = 1825
term_end = 1829
lieutenant = None
predecessor = Israel Pickens
successor = Gabriel Moore
birth_date = 1786
birth_place = Columbia, North Carolina
death_date = death date|1841|9|21|mf=y
death_place = Clarke County, Alabama
party = Democrat
spouse =
profession =
religion =

John Murphy (1786–September 21, 1841) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama, serving two terms from 1825 to 1829. Born in 1786 in Columbia, North Carolina, he also represented Alabama in the United States House of Representatives from 1833 to 1839.

Under 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.

Murphy died in 1841 in Clarke County, Alabama.


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