Tim Murphy

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Tim Murphy (2011)

Timothy F. "Tim" Murphy (* 11. September 1952 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2003 until his resignation on October 21, 2017, he represented the 18th congressional constituency of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tim Murphy attended Walsh Jesuit High School in Ohio and then until 1974 Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia . This was followed by studies at Cleveland State University until 1976 . He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979 . He then worked as a psychologist at the same university. In this field he was co-editor of several specialist books. Between 1996 and 2002 he was a member of the Pennsylvania Senate .

In the 2002 election , Murphy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 18th Congressional constituency in Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Democrat Michael F. Doyle on January 3, 2003 (who was appointed to constituency restructuring in the 14th district). Pennsylvania Congressional District ). Murphy has been re-elected in all subsequent elections, including that of 2016, and has been unopposed since 2012 .

Murphy served on the Energy and Trade Committee and three of its sub-committees. Before that, he sat on the Veterans Committee and the Administrative Reform Committee . Murphy belongs or belonged to the Congressional Arts Caucus and four other Congressional Caucuses as well as the centrist alliance Republican Main Street Partnership . He is particularly committed to the concerns of mentally ill people.

In 2006 he was charged with illegally using his constituency office workers for campaigning purposes.

In early October 2017, it was revealed that Murphy - who is politically against abortion ( Pro-Life ) - had urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion. One day later, Murphy announced that he would no longer run in the next election in November 2018 , and one day later he announced his resignation on October 21, 2017.

An extraordinary by-election for the seat was scheduled for March 13, 2018. Murphy's constituency, which includes suburbs of Pittsburgh and parts of Pennsylvania's coal region, won Donald Trump by 20 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, but the Democrat Conor Lamb prevailed in the election .

Web links

Commons : Tim Murphy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Congressman Tim Murphy R-PA on KDKA News taking the evidence. Video on YouTube .
  2. ^ Rep. Tim Murphy, popular with pro-life movement, urged abortion in affair, texts suggest. In: Post-Gazette , October 3, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Bridget Bowman: Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election Following Affair Revelations. In: Roll Call , October 4, 2017 (English); Ben Jacobs: Tim Murphy quits Congress amid claims he pressured woman to have abortion. In: The Guardian , October 5, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Timothy F. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio