{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Other people|William Murphy}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Samuel Murphy | birth_name = William Samuel Murphy | image = | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1882|2|12}} | birth_place = Portland, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|4|29|1882|2|12|df=yes}} | death_place = | spouse = Jane Edith Birmingham<br />m. 31 August 1904<ref name=CPG29>{{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide | first=A.L. | last=Normandin | year=1930 | publisher=Mortimer Company | location=Ottawa }}</ref> | riding = Lanark | predecessor = Richard Franklin Preston | successor = Thomas Alfred Thompson | term_start = July 1929 | term_end = May 1930 | profession = physician | party = Independent Conservative | footnotes = | website = }}

'''William Samuel Murphy''' (12 February 1882 &ndash; 29 April 1961) was an Independent Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Portland, Ontario and became a physician.

Murphy attended public school at Portland, then secondary school at Athens, Ontario before further studies at Queen's University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine (MD, CM) degrees. He settled in Smiths Falls, Ontario where he became a director of Northern Buttons Ltd. and from 1916 to 1918 served as that town's mayor.<ref name=CPG29 />

He was first elected to Parliament at the Lanark riding in a by-election on 29 July 1929. After serving for the remainder of the 16th Canadian Parliament, Murphy was defeated in the 1930 federal election by Thomas Alfred Thompson of the Conservatives.

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