Milton T. Murray

Milton T. Murray (June 1, 1898 – October 3, 1991)[1] was a teacher, lawyer and politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Born in Milwaukee, Murray went to University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Marquette University, and the University of Chicago. He worked as a teacher and coach and then went into the practice of law. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly before getting elected to the Wisconsin Senate.[2]

He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate's 4th District (the thirteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first wards of the City of Milwaukee; and the Villages of Fox Point, River Hills, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, and the Town of Milwaukee) in 1939 to fill the vacancy created by the death of incumbent Oscar Morris.[3] He was re-elected in 1940 for a full term, with 24,919 votes to 9,258 for Democrat Thomas Nimlos and 8,346 for Progressive nominee Anton Blechinger.[4]

Murray was a candidate in the Republican primary for Governor of Wisconsin twice.[5] In 1942 he challenged incumbent Julius P. Heil, coming in second in a three-way race, with 95,908 votes to Heil's 136,980 and 32,740 for a third candidate; reporters speculated that Murray's high results in normally Progressive districts were the product of mischievous votes from Progressives (who did not have a contest on their ballot line).[6] Heil went on to lose to Progressive Orland Steen Loomis in the general election.[7] In 1944, rather than run for re-election, Murray challenged Acting Governor Walter Samuel Goodland, and came in third in a five-man race.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Social Security Death Index
  2. ↑ Ohm, Howard F.; Bryhan, Leone G., ed. The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1940 Madison: Democrat Printing Company, State Printer, 1940; p. 28
  3. ↑ Ohm, Howard F.; Bryhan, Leone G., ed. The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1940 Madison: Democrat Printing Company, State Printer, 1940; p. 616
  4. ↑ Ohm, Howard F.; Bryhan, Leone G., ed. The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1942 Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1942; p. 665
  5. ↑ "Murray, Milton T." Our Campaigns.com. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
  6. ↑ "GOP Nominates Heil" Wisconsin State Journal September 16, 1942; p. 1 via Newspapers.com
  7. ↑ Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., ed. The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1944 Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1944; pp. 572
  8. ↑ Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., ed. The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1946 Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1946; p. 590
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