
Francis Parnell Murphy (16 August 1877-19 December 1958) was the Republican Governor of New Hampshire from 7 January 1937 to 2 January 1941, succeeding Styles Bridges and preceding Robert O. Blood.
Biography[]
Francis Parnell Murphy was born in Winchester, New Hampshire in 1877, the fourth son of Irish Catholic immigrant parents. He worked at a shoe factory in Hudson, Massachusetts and in the New Hampshire towns of Newport, Manchester, and Nashua, and he became a shoe manufacturer in 1922. Murphy served in the State House in 1931, the Executive Council in 1933, and Governor from 1937 to 1941, and he was a staunch supporter of the New Deal, pro-labor legislation, and the replacement of a real estate tax with a tobacco tax. He became a Democrat in 1942 and entered the broadcasting industry, and he died in 1958.