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Patrick W. Murphy

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-05-1865 Democratic SD-03 0 Win
09-04-1877 Democratic SD-03 0 Win
11-02-1880 Democratic AD-03 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/66877371/patrick-washington-murphy
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: September 17, 1837 in Quebec, Lower Canada [now Canada]
Married: Mary Catherine O'Brien (m. 1870, d. 1875)
Family: Brother of Bernard D. Murphy
Died: November 1, 1901 in San Francisco, CA

  • Had a brother who served in the same legislative house concurrently.

Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)
Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives