William Tayloe Murphy (May 6, 1901 – November 16, 1962) was an American politician and businessman from Virginia.
On June 1, 1942, he was appointed as state treasurer by Governor Colgate Darden, succeeding Edwin B. Jones.
[1][3][4][5] He was author of the Revenue Bond Act, a plan to finance the construction of a toll bridge system in eastern Virginia.
He was a trustee of the University of Virginia School of Business Administration and helped form the Northern Neck Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission.
[5] In 1961, Murphy was diagnosed with cancer and he died a year later of it on November 16, 1962, at his home in Warsaw.