Greg Murphy | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's3rd district | |
| Assumed office September 17, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Walter B. Jones Jr. |
| Member of theNorth Carolina House of Representatives from the9th district | |
| In office October 19, 2015 – September 17, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Brian Brown |
| Succeeded by | Perrin Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gregory Francis Murphy (1963-03-05)March 5, 1963 (age 62) Tarrytown, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | Davidson College (BS) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MD) |
| Website | House website Campaign website |
Gregory Francis Murphy (born March 5, 1963) is an American politician andurologist representingNorth Carolina's 3rd congressional district in theU.S. House of Representatives since 2019. He served as a representative in theNorth Carolina General Assembly from 2015 to 2019.[2][3]
Murphy was born inTarrytown, New York and raised inRaleigh, North Carolina, and attendedNeedham B. Broughton High School.[4] After high school, he attendedDavidson College as an Edward Crosland Stuart Scholar. He then completed medical school at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with honors and as a member of theAlpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.[5]
After completing his residency in urology and renal transplantation at theUniversity of Kentucky, Murphy and his wife settled inGreenville, North Carolina, where he began his medical practice.[5][6]
Murphy has traveled as amedical missionary. When he was 20 years old, he spent a summer in Bihar, India, working in a Catholic leprosy hospital.[7] Murphy performed medical missionary work in Haiti after the2010 earthquake.[8]
Murphy served as president of a medical practice and also as Chief of Staff ofVidant Medical Center. He was a member of the faculty at theBrody School of Medicine atEast Carolina University and served as Davidson College Alumni President from 2015 to 2017 while also serving on the board of trustees.[5][9]
In 2017, Murphy received a Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Association of Clinical Urologists.[10]
In 2019, Murphy received a Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.[citation needed]
Murphy was appointed to theNorth Carolina General Assembly in November 2015 and served the 9th District ofPitt County, to finish the term ofBrian Brown, who had resigned.[11]
On November 8, 2016, he was elected to the seat, defeatingBrian Farkas with 22,540 votes (57.52%) to Farkas's 16,648 (42.48%).[12]
Murphy was reelected in 2018, defeating Kristoffer (Kris) Rixon.[13]
During his second term in the General Assembly, Murphy served as Senior Chair of Health Policy and championed several health care initiatives.[5] In 2017, he introduced the STOP Act (Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention Act), North Carolina's first major legislative initiative to confront theopioid epidemic.[14] Murphy then introduced the HOPE Act, which helped law enforcement curtail drug trafficking.[15] These two initiatives, along with other interventions, were credited[by whom?] with reducing North Carolina's opioid overdose deaths for the first time in over a decade.[16]
Murphy introduced legislation that helped veterans get access tohyperbaric oxygen therapy as treatment fortraumatic brain injuries andpost-traumatic stress disorder.[17] After the deaths of three newborns in eastern North Carolina, he introduced legislation to improve birthing standards forbirth centers in North Carolina.[18][19]
| Standing or Select Committee | Status |
|---|---|
| Alcoholic Beverage Control | Member |
| Appropriations | Vice-chairman |
| Appropriations, Health and Human Services | Chairman |
| Education - Universities | Member |
| Energy and Public Utilities | Member |
| Health | Chairman |
| Health Care Reform | Member |
| House Select Committee on Disaster Relief | Member |
| Insurance | Member |
In 2019, Murphy announced his candidacy for theUnited States House of Representativesspecial election in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district to replaceWalter B. Jones Jr., who died in office. Murphy won the runoff on July 9, 2019, against pediatrician Joan Perry, 59.7% to 40.3%.[20] In the September 10 general election, he defeated formerGreenville Mayor Allen M. Thomas, 61.7% to 37.5%.[21]
In 2020, Murphy was unopposed in the Republican primary for his seat.[22] He won the general election over Democratic nominee Daryl Farrow with 63.5% of the vote.[23]
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On March 19, 2024, Murphy introduced a bill to the118th Congress that would amend theHigher Education Act of 1965. The amendment would ban graduate medical schools withdiversity, equity and inclusion training and offices from receiving any federal funds.[29]
In an opinion piece in theWall Street Journal, Murphy wrote that DEI training is "dangerous everywhere" and that it will lead to "future physicians less qualified to meet patients' needs."[30]
As a result ofChinese espionage at American universities, Murphy introduced the INFLUENCE Act, aimed at reducing the number of Chinese nationals attending American higher education institutions. While requiring higher education institutions to report gifts of $50,000 or more from a foreign source, Murphy's legislation also establishes interagency coordination on the enforcement of any violations exposing U.S. national security projects.[31][non-primary source needed]
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Murphy claimed on Twitter thatJoe Biden "obviously is fighting the ravages of dementia."[32] Questioned about the assertion by a reporter, Murphy, a urologist, said he was only echoing what the public thinks.[33] "The majority of American people believe he does have dementia", he said.[34] Murphy also claimed Biden had ‘so much plastic surgery’.[35]
In an October 2020 tweet that later was deleted,[36] Murphy called Democratic vice presidential nomineeKamala Harris a "walking disaster" who "was only picked for her color and her race".[36]
Murphy was condemned for a tweet directed at RepresentativeIlhan Omar, a Muslim.
"Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol", Omar wrote after an April 2 incident.[37] "My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer's family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife." Murphy responded, "Would have been worse if they had been flying planes into the buildings also".[38]
In December 2020, Murphy was one of 126 Republican members of theHouse of Representatives to sign anamicus brief in support ofTexas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at theU.S. Supreme Court contesting the results of the2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated Trump.[39][40] The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lackedstanding underArticle III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.[41][42][43]
In January 2021, Murphy was one of several Republican members of the House, led by RepresentativeMo Brooks of Alabama[44][45] and SenatorJosh Hawley of Missouri,[46] who declared that they would formally object to the counting of the electoral votes of five swing states won by Biden during the January 6 joint session.[44][45][47] The objections would then trigger votes from both houses.[47]
At least 140 House Republicans reportedly planned to vote against the counting of electoral votes, despite the lack of any credible allegation of an irregularity that would have affected the election, and the allegations' rejections by courts, election officials, the Electoral College, and others,[44] and despite the fact that almost all of the Republican objectors had "just won elections in the very same balloting they are now claiming was fraudulently administered".[48]
Murphy said in a press release the day before the joint session, "I have been quite vocal in stating that to preserve the integrity of our elections, we must fight to ensure that every voice is heard, every legal vote is counted, and every count is confirmed", adding that he believed the actions of executive officials and judges in several states were "at best troubling and at worst seditious."[49][50]
After thestorming of the United States Capitol by a mob of rioters supporting Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Murphy voted to agree with the objection to Pennsylvania's results.[51][52]
Murphy did not cast a vote onTrump's second impeachment on January 13, 2021.[53][54] He released a statement that he "strongly opposed" the impeachment but he would miss the vote because he was with his wife as she recovered from a surgery.[54]
Murphy compared theIsraeli invasion of the Gaza Strip to theUnited States war against Japan and suggested Israel would be justified in applying military force comparable to that of theatomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “If you look at whatimperial Japan did to the United States, we came back and said basically you’re going to have to unconditionally surrender, and when they didn’t, we had to drop the two atomic bombs on them. This is where Israel has every single right in the world to press this conflict further,” Murphy said.[55][56]
Murphy lives inGreenville, North Carolina.[5] He is Catholic.[57]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy | 9,530 | 22.51 | |
| Republican | Joan Perry | 6,536 | 15.44 | |
| Republican | Phil Shepard | 5,101 | 12.05 | |
| Republican | Michael Speciale | 4,022 | 9.50 | |
| Republican | Phil Law | 3,690 | 8.72 | |
| Republican | Eric Rouse | 3,258 | 7.70 | |
| Republican | Jeff Moore | 2,280 | 5.39 | |
| Republican | Francis X. De Luca | 1,670 | 3.95 | |
| Republican | Celeste Cairns | 1,467 | 3.47 | |
| Republican | Chimer Davis Clark Jr. | 1,092 | 2.58 | |
| Republican | Michele Nix | 915 | 2.16 | |
| Republican | Graham Boyd | 897 | 2.12 | |
| Republican | Paul Beaumont | 805 | 1.90 | |
| Republican | Mike Payment | 537 | 1.27 | |
| Republican | Don Cox | 251 | 0.59 | |
| Republican | Kevin Baiko | 171 | 0.40 | |
| Republican | Gary Ceres | 108 | 0.26 | |
| Total votes | 42,330 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy | 21,481 | 59.65 | |
| Republican | Joan Perry | 14,530 | 40.35 | |
| Total votes | 36,011 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy | 70,407 | 61.74 | |
| Democratic | Allen M. Thomas | 42,738 | 37.47 | |
| Constitution | Greg Holt | 507 | 0.44 | |
| Libertarian | Tim Harris | 394 | 0.35 | |
| Total votes | 114,046 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy (incumbent) | 227,462 | 63.5 | |
| Democratic | Daryl Farrow | 131,011 | 36.5 | |
| Total votes | 358,473 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy (incumbent) | 50,123 | 75.7 | |
| Republican | Tony Cowden | 9,332 | 14.1 | |
| Republican | Eric Earhart | 3,274 | 4.9 | |
| Republican | George Papastrat | 1,789 | 2.7 | |
| Republican | Brian Michael Friend | 1,698 | 2.6 | |
| Total votes | 66,216 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy (incumbent) | 166,520 | 66.9 | |
| Democratic | Barbara Gaskins | 82,378 | 33.1 | |
| Total votes | 247,898 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Greg Murphy (incumbent) | 248,276 | 77.4 | |
| Libertarian | Gheorghe Cormos | 72,565 | 22.6 | |
| Total votes | 320,841 | 100.0 | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's 3rd congressional district 2019–present | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | United States representatives by seniority 237th | Succeeded by |
