James W. Murphy (September 27, 1852 – December 25, 1913) was an American merchant, farmer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Marquette County and of the Wisconsin State Senate from Milwaukee County.
He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in June 1868, and moved to Milwaukee, where he lived for several years before returning to Briggsville.
He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate from the Fourth District in 1892, with 5,215 votes to 4,824 for Republican ex-Congressman Isaac W. Van Schaick, 98 for Prohibitionist William Bendile, and 86 for Meschaff, Populist.
[1] In September 1893 he was appointed the United States Collector of Internal Revenue for the First (eastern) District of Wisconsin.
[3][4] He is not the same person as James William Murphy, mayor of Platteville, Wisconsin and member of the United States House of Representatives.