In 1882, Murphy again ran for Congress, challenging a freshman incumbent Republican, Sewall S. Farwell.
Samuel Sewall | Sewall Wright | Arthur Farwell | Sewall K. Crocker | Samuel Sewall (congressman) | Charles B. Farwell | Byron Farwell | Stephen Sewall | Sewall's Point, Florida | Sewall's Point | Sewall S. Farwell | Leonard J. Farwell | Jonathan Sewall | Farwell, Texas | Farwell, Michigan | David Sewall |
Upham was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1851, but lost by less than one percent of the vote to Leonard J. Farwell, the Whig candidate.
He graduated from Cornell University in 1886, and in 1890 married Rose Farwell, daughter of former United States Senator Charles B. Farwell.
He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Charles B. Farwell to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from May 6, 1876, to March 3, 1877.