Benjamin Franklin Murphy
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio's18th district
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933
Preceded by	David Hollingsworth
Succeeded by	Lawrence E. Imhoff
Personal details
Born	(1867-12-24)December 24, 1867 Steubenville, Ohio, US
Died	March 6, 1938(1938-03-06) (aged 70) Takoma Park, Maryland, US
Resting place	Union Cemetery, Steubenville
Political party	Republican

Benjamin Franklin Murphy (December 24, 1867 – March 6, 1938) was aU.S. Representative fromOhio from 1919 to 1933.

Born inSteubenville, Ohio to Charles F. Murphy and Mary E. (née Beasley) Murphy, he attended the public schools. He learned theglassworker's trade, and later engaged in the retail shoe business, inbanking, and in thereal estate business. He served as vice president of the Peoples National Bank. During theFirst World War, Murphy served withYMCA, stationed at Camp Sheridan,Montgomery, Alabama, in 1917 and 1918.

Murphy was elected as aRepublican to theSixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933). He served as chairman of theCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-seventh Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to theSeventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to theSeventy-fourth Congress.

Murphy was married three times and widowed twice. His second wife, Mame M. née Barcus, died in an automobile accident in Florida in April 1929.^[1] About a year later, he married a local divorcee, Marie E. (née Williams) Clerk^[2][3][4] in Washington, DC. The ceremony took place at her home and was presided over by her brother-in-law, Rev. William Clews.

Murphy resided inWashington, D.C. He died inTakoma Park, Maryland, March 6, 1938. He was interred in Union Cemetery,Steubenville, Ohio.

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