riding predecessor successor birth_place profession party office birth_date spouse residence term_start article_title term_end name minister
charlottetown george proud john g. williams sean casey joe volpe charlottetown , prince edward island attorney liberal chair of the standing committee on public accounts 27 july 1951 yvette -lrb- comeau -rrb- murphy charlottetown may 4 , 2006 shawn murphy -lrb- politician -rrb-
 2011 september 29 , 2010 shawn murphy john baird vic toews stockwell day
shawn murphy -lrb- politician -rrb-

shawn murphy , pc , mp , qc -lrb- born july 27 , 1951 in charlottetown , prince edward island -rrb- is a canadian politician .
murphy attended the university of prince edward island , and later the university of new brunswick faculty of law , graduating with a law degree in 1976 .
he returned to prince edward island and joined a local law practice , working alongside future premier joe ghiz .
in 1997 , he was made a queen 's counsel .
murphy is married and has three adult children : kevin , paul , and brian .
murphy was a member of the liberal party of canada in the canadian house of commons , representing the riding of charlottetown since the election of 2000 .
during the martin government , he served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of fisheries and oceans with special emphasis on the oceans action plan .
he was re-elected with nearly 50 % of the vote in the 2004 federal election .
despite rumours of his vulnerability in the 2006 federal election , murphy was reelected with slightly more than 50 % of the vote .
with the liberals now in opposition , murphy became the chairman of the public accounts committee .
murphy was re-elected in the 2008 federal election , again winning by a comfortable margin .
he announced on october 13 , 2010 that he would not be running in the next election .
