John Murphy (1786 – September 21, 1841) was the fourth Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama, serving two terms from 1825 to 1829.

John Murphy was born in 1786 in Robeson County, North Carolina.

[1] Among his classmates at South Carolina College were John Gayle and James Dellet.

Under the date of April 2, 1834, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Congressman James Blair "shot himself last evening at his lodgings ... after reading part of an affectionate letter from his wife, to Governor Murphy, of Alabama, who was alone in the chamber with him, and a fellow-lodger at the same house."

[citation needed] Murphy was buried in Gosport.