death_date nationality birth_date term_end death_place preceded order term_start spouse dead image name succeeded predecessor birth_place party office successor article_title
22 august 1908 american 14 october 1849 july 3 , 1897 1 , 1902 april 12 , 1893 march coronado , california john n. irwin marcus a. smith 14th 10th august 4 , 1895 1 , 1898 may 11 , 1892 march sarah -rrb- emma d. sells -lrb- married 1904 -rrb- e. banghart -lrb- married 1884 , divorced 1903 dead n. o. murphy.jpg nathan oakes murphy louis cameron hughes marcus a. smith myron h. mccord jefferson , maine republican governor to the u.s. house of representatives from arizona territory of arizona territory governor of arizona territory delegate alexander oswald brodie oakes murphy

oakes murphy

nathan oakes murphy -lrb- october 14 , 1849 -- august 22 , 1908 -rrb- was the fourteenth governor of arizona territory .
born in jefferson , maine , murphy attended the public schools .
he taught school in wisconsin .
he went to the western frontier and finally settled in prescott , arizona , in april 1883 where he engaged in mining and the real estate business .
secretary to the governor of arizona territory in 1885 .
he was appointed secretary of arizona territory march 21 , 1889 .
he served as delegate to the republican national convention in 1892 .
governor of arizona territory 1892-1894 .
murphy was elected as a republican to the fifty-fourth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1895-march 3 , 1897 -rrb- .
he was not a candidate for renomination in 1896 .
again governor of arizona territory and served from 1898 to 1902 , when he resigned .
he was an unsuccessful republican candidate for election in 1900 to the fifty-seventh congress .
he died in coronado , california , august 22 , 1908 .
he was interred in the masonic cemetery , san diego , california but reinterred at rock creek cemetery -lrb- dc -rrb- in december 1909 .
