Henry C. Murphy

Henry C. Murphy

Henry Cruse Murphy (born July 5, 1810 in Brooklyn , New York , † December 1, 1882 ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1843 and 1845 and between 1847 and 1849 .

Career

Henry Cruse Murphy was born in Brooklyn about two years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He graduated from Columbia College in New York City in 1830 . Murphy studied law and began practicing in Brooklyn in 1833 after receiving his license to practice law. He served as prosecuting attorney ( prosecuting attorney ) of Kings County in 1841 and 1842 and as Mayor of Brooklyn in 1842 and 1843. In 1846 he took part as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of New York. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1842 Murphy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joseph Egbert on March 4, 1843 . However, he suffered for his re-election bid in 1844 , a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1845 Congress of. Murphy ran again for a seat in Congress in 1846 . After a successful election, he succeeded Henry J. Seaman on March 4, 1847 . In his fourth candidacy in 1848 , he suffered a defeat and left the Congress on March 3, 1849.

Then he ran unsuccessfully in 1852 for the presidential candidacy at the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore . On June 1, 1857, he was appointed envoy to the Netherlands to succeed August Belmont , a position he held until June 8, 1861. Civil war had broken out about two months earlier . He then sat in the New York State Assembly between 1861 and 1873 . During this time he took part in the New York Constituent Assemblies in 1867 and 1868. He was also the owner and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . He died in Brooklyn on December 1, 1882 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Works

• Translation of Voyages from Holland to America 1632 to 1644 by De Vries .
• Henry Hudson in Holland: Origin and Objects of the Voyage which Led to the Discovery of the Hudson River , The Brothers Giunta d'Albani, 1859.
• Jacob Steendam, Noch Vaster: A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherlands, with his Poems, Descriptive of the Colony , The Brothers Giunta d'Albani, 1861.

Web links

• Henry C. Murphy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry C. Murphy in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Voyage of Verrazzano by Henry Cruse Murphy