Orrice Abram Murdock

Orrice Abram Murdock

Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (born July 18, 1893 in Austin , Nevada , † September 15, 1979 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Utah in both chambers of the US Congress .

Murdock was still a child when his parents moved him from Nevada to Utah in 1898, where the family settled in Beaver . There he attended public and private schools before studying law at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City . Upon successful completion, he was admitted to the bar and began working as a lawyer in Beaver.

Abe Murdock, as he was usually known, made his first political steps as a member of the Beaver City Council between 1920 and 1921. He served as prosecutor for Beaver County from 1923 to 1924, from 1927 to 1928 and from 1931 to 1932. Prosecutor von Beaver he was between 1926 and 1933. The Democratic Party nominated him in 1928 as District Attorney for the Fifth District of Utah, but he lost the election.

For this he succeeded in moving into the US House of Representatives in 1933 , to which he would belong for the next eight years. In 1940 Murdock did not stand for re-election because he ran for the US Senate and also prevailed here. After a six-year term he had to leave the Senate on January 3, 1947, because he had failed in the re-election of the Republican Arthur Vivian Watkins .

As a result, Murdock worked again as a lawyer; he also devoted himself to agriculture and animal husbandry. From 1947 to 1957 he was a member of the National Labor Relations Board , an independent US agency that monitored compliance with fair working conditions. In 1960 he was once again engaged in a similar capacity in an authority that was active in the field of nuclear energy.

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