Biographical Sketches:  JAMES WILLIAM MURPHY


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1116-1117

Third Congressional District. Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Juneau, Richland,
Sauk and Vernon Counties. Population 1900 - 180,750.

JAMES WILLIAM MURPHY (Dem.), of Platteville, Wis., was born at
Platteville April 17, 1858; was graduated from the state normal school
at Platteville in 1873; taught school for five years; was graduated
from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1880; has
practiced law at Platteville 26 years, serving four as district
attorney of Grant county; was elected mayor of Platteville in 1904 and
1906; he has for many years been interested in lead and zinc mining in
Wisconsin; was married in 1881 and has four children. He was elected
to the 60th congress, receiving 14,701 votes against 13,690 for Joseph
Weeks Babcock (Rep.) and 934 for Herbert J. Noyes (Pro.).