Researching Oakes Murphy
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The name Oakes means "from the oak-tree grove" and is of English origin.
Records of Oakes Murphy on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Oakes Murphy and the Murphy Genealogy
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Murphy Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Oakes Murphy
Oakes Murphy
Nathan Oakes Murphy (October 14, 1849 – August 22, 1908) was the tenth and fourteenth Governor of Arizona Territory. As well as the territory's delegate to the House of Representatives.
Born in Jefferson, Maine to Benjamin F. Murphy and Lucy Oakes Murphy.He attended the public schools.In 1856 the family moved to Wisconsin.From 1866 to 1869 he taught school in Wisconsin.He went to the western frontier and finally settled in Prescott, Arizona, in April 1883 where he engaged in mining and the real estate business.Secretary to the Governor of Arizona Territory in 1885.He was appointed secretary of Arizona Territory March 21, 1889.He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892.Governor of Arizona Territory 1892–1894.
Murphy was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1896.Again Governor of Arizona Territory and served from 1898 to 1902, when he resigned.He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.He died in Coronado, California, August 22, 1908.He was interred in the Masonic Cemetery, San Diego, California but reinterred at Rock Creek Cemetery (DC) in December 1909.
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