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James W. Murphy

Born in Little Falls, New York, he came to Briggsville, Wisconsin with his family in 1854.


Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Charles A. Murphy

Stationed in Cherry Point, North Carolina, Murphy served a six-month tour as a Staff Judge Advocate for the commanding officer aboard the USS Guadalcanal that deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and Mogadishu, Somalia, as part of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Drive-through

Pennsylvania State Representative Kevin P. Murphy installed a drive-through window designed to speed constituent service.

Francis Murphy

Francis P. Murphy (1877–1958), Republican 73rd Governor of New Hampshire

Fred Murphy

Fred T. Murphy (1872–1948), American football player and coach, physician

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.).

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

James Marshall House

James W. Marshall House, Lambertville, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

James McMillan

James W. McMillan (1825–1903), Union officer during the American Civil War

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

James W. Borden

His brother, physician Joseph Borden (1806–1875) and his family moved to California and named the town of Borden, California.

There was a minor territorial dispute over the remote Johnston Atoll.

James W. Bryan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Bryan was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

James W. Dunbar

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

James W. Forsyth

He died on October 24, 1906 in Columbus, Ohio, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

James W. Hennigan, Jr.

Hennigan is the Hennigan referred to in Morgan v. Hennigan since he was head of the Boston School Committee at the time.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

James W. Pumphrey

Pumphrey's stable was located near the National Hotel, which was Booth's Washington residence at the time.

James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

James W. Stone

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

James W. Walter, Sr.

His wife, Monica Walter, died in 1982, leaving two sons, James W. Walter Jr. and Robert Walter.

James W. York

In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field equation exist, and answering this question has been the central theme of York's scientific work, culminating in the achievement, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of partial differential equations.

John M. Murphy

John Michael Murphy (born August 3, 1926) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Morgan Murphy

Morgan F. Murphy (born 1932), former US Representative from Illinois, 1971–1981

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Murlan J. Murphy

Chief among the companies was Murphy-Phoenix Company, makers of Murphy Oil Soap, which was later sold to Colgate-Palmolive.

Passive-aggressive behavior

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California

Simon J. Murphy, Jr. (1851–1926), mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of Simon J. Murphy, Sr.

Susan L. M. Aumann

Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell, Maggie McIntosh, and Samuel I. Rosenberg.

Thomas F. Murphy

Thomas Francis Murphy (1905–1995), American federal prosecutor and judge

Thomas J. Fiscus

The revelations about Fiscus surfaced around the time of other scandals involving Air Force officers Colonel Michael D. Murphy and Brigadier General Richard S. Hassan.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder

The song has enjoyed some popularity with Irish-Americans and association with the Saint Patrick's Day holiday and is sometimes played during the holiday, sometimes edited to remove elements of the song that can be construed to disparage the Irish.

William B. Murphy

Born in Mexia, a small city in Central Texas' Limestone County, William B. Murphy was 41 when his name first appeared in film credits as co-editor (with Richard Cahoon) of the independently-produced 1949 B-western, Massacre River, released by United Artists.

William Parry

William P. Murphy (1892–1987), William Parry Murphy, American physician

William Reese

James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"


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