Edwin R. Murray

From 2005 to 2016, he served in the Louisiana State Senate from District 4 in Orleans Parish.

[1] A native and lifelong New Orleans resident, Murray graduated from John F. Kennedy High School and then studied at Loyola University, where he earned in 1982 a Bachelor of Arts in political science and in 1985 a Juris Doctor degree.

From 1992 to 2004, Murray held the District 96 seat from Orleans Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

[2] Murray is a fellow of the Loyola University Institute of Politics.

[3] Murray was term-limited in the 2015 elections and was succeeded in the Senate by Democrat Wesley T. Bishop.