{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Joseph R. Murphy | birth_date = {{birth date|1880|9|10}} | birth_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|10|16|1880|9|10}} | death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia | office = MLA for Halifax South | term_start = October 28, 1940 | term_end = October 16, 1944 | predecessor = Angus L. Macdonald | successor = Angus L. Macdonald | party = Nova Scotia Liberal Party | occupation = }}
'''Joseph Richard Murphy''' (September 10, 1880 – October 16, 1944) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Halifax South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1940 to 1944. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.<ref name=HalifaxSouth>{{cite web|url=http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/halifax%20atlantic.pdf|title=Electoral History for Halifax South|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2015-05-09|archive-date=2017-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823064531/http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/halifax%20atlantic.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Murphy was born in 1880 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.<ref name="bio directory">{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|author-link1=Shirley Elliott|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/164|accessdate=2018-05-15|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/164 164]}}</ref> He was educated at Ampleforth College, England.<ref name="bio directory"/> He married Marcelle Grace Butler in 1906, and was a wholesale dry goods and clothing manufacturer by career.<ref name="bio directory"/> Murphy entered provincial politics on October 28, 1940, winning a byelection for the Halifax South riding by acclamation.<ref name=HalifaxSouth/> He was re-elected in the 1941 election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201941.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1941|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|page=40|accessdate=2015-05-09}}</ref> Murphy died in office on October 16, 1944.<ref name="bio directory"/>
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