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.