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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeThomas Jefferson MURRAY
(1894-1971)
MURRAY, Thomas Jefferson,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Jackson, Madison County,
Tenn., August 1, 1894; attended the public high schools; graduated
from Union University, Jackson, Tenn., 1914; graduated from the law
department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., 1917; teacher;
United States Army, First World War, 1918 and 1919; lawyer, private
practice; district attorney general for the twelfth judicial
circuit of Tennessee, 1922-1933; office of the Solicitor of the
Post Office Department at Washington, D.C., 1933-1942; chair,
Democratic Executive Committee of Madison County, Tenn., 1924-1933;
member of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Tennessee,
1923-1924; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions, 1928,
1932, and 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to
the eleven succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation
on December 30, 1966 (January 3, 1943-December 30, 1966); chair,
Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (Eighty-first,
Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninetieth Congress
in 1966; died on November 28, 1971, in Jackson, Tenn.; interment in
Hollywood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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