Florence K. Murray

She was a graduate of Rogers High School in Newport, and Syracuse University in New York.

[6] After the war, she was elected as a Democrat to the Rhode Island state senate and served from 1949 to 1956.

[3] Murray received the Silver Shingle Award from Boston University School of Law.

[11] She died at her home in Newport on March 28, 2004,[3][12] and is buried with her husband in Trinity Cemetery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

[13] The Rhode Island Bar Association established a Florence K. Murray Award in her honor.

An elm tree stands in front of the Florence K. Murray Courthouse in Newport, RI