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Murphy, Henry Cruse

lawyer, state legislator, state senator, congressman, author, was born July 5, 1810, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was at one time attorney for the city of Brooklyn; and was elected mayor of that city in 1842. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1849; and was appointed minister to The Hague. On his return from Europe he was elected to the legislature of New York, serving in both the assembly and senate. He was again elected to the state senate in 1868 and 1869. In 1868 he published a translation from the Dutch entitled Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679-80. His land; and Anthology of the New Nethland; and Anthology of the New Netherlands. He died Dec. 11, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.