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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinHoward Johnstone McMURRAY
(1901-1961)
McMURRAY, Howard
Johnstone, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Harvey
County, near Mount Hope, Kans., March 3, 1901; attended the public
schools, Berea Academy at Berea, Ky., and high school at Madison,
Wis.; was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in
1936; engaged in the life insurance business 1923-1928; executive
with air transport companies 1928-1935; teacher of political
science at the University of Wisconsin 1936-1942; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3,
1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, but was an
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States
Senate in 1944 and again in 1946; lecturer in political science at
the University of Wisconsin in 1945 and 1946; professor of
political science at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.,
1947-1949; professor of government, University of New Mexico, from
1949 until his death in Albuquerque, N.Mex., August 14, 1961;
interment in Fairview Park Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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