Thomas Murray Jr.

Thomas Jr.. graduated from Union University at Jackson, TN in 1914 and from the law department of Cumberland University at Lebanon, TN in 1917. He taught school in Pinson and Alamo, TN from 1914 to 1916. During the First World War he served overseas in the United States Army as a private in the ordinacne department, Fifth Army Corps in 1918 and 1919; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and began practice in Jackson, TN in 1919. He was district attorney general for the 12th Judicial circuit of Tennessee from 1922 until his resignation in 1933 to become associated with the office of Solicitor of the Post Office Department in Washington D. C. and served from 1933 to 1942. He was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Madison County, TN 1924-1933; member of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Tennessee in 1923 and 1924; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932 and 1936; served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for twelve terms (January 3, 1943 until his retirement in 1966). He is a gentleman, a man of high principal and high character, a man who served his district, his State and his Ntion with dedication and devotion. He was never married. He lived in Jackson, Tennessee.