Terms of Service

• House, 42nd Legislature
  1/13/1931 - 1/10/1933
  Democrat
  
• House, 41st Legislature
  1/8/1929 - 1/13/1931
  Democrat
  
• House, 40th Legislature
  1/11/1927 - 1/8/1929
  Democrat
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. E.T. Murphy, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. E.T. Murphy, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. E.T. Murphy, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Edward Thad Murphy, birth date 11/19/1889 in Moscow, Texas, death date 6/9/1960 in Livingston, Polk County. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• Edward Thad Murphy (1889-1960), burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Livingston, Polk County. Find a Grave .
• Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/22/1929, p. 7. Houston Post-Dispatch .
• Biographical sketch, Edward Thad Murphy, Volume I, pp. 240-241. Born 11/19/1889 in Moscow, Polk County. Texas Under Many Flags 1930.

Committee Information

• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Appropriations  
• Congressional Districts  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• State Affairs (Vice Chair) 
• 41st R.S. - 1929
• Appropriations  
• Highway Department, Investigate (Chair) 
• Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• Labor  
• Prison Centralization Commission  
• Privileges, Suffrage and Elections  
• 40th R.S. - 1927
• Conservation and Reclamation  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Revenue and Taxation