During the First World War, Murphy served with YMCA, stationed at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1917 and 1918.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-seventh Congress).

His second wife, Mame M. née Barcus, died in an automobile accident in Florida in April 1929.

[1] About a year later, he married a local divorcee, Marie E. (née Williams) Clerk[2][3][4] in Washington, DC.

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