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Thomas J. Murphy (politician)
Thomas J. McCarthy Murphy (1861–1933) was a lawyer and politician in Colony of Newfoundland, Newfoundland. He represented St. John's East in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1886 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1904. The son of Thomas Murphy and Catherine McCarthy, he was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's and was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College. Murphy studies law with John Hoyles Boone and went on to practice in the same office; he was admitted to the bar in 1886.. Murphy ran unsuccessfully for the Harbour Main seat in the Newfoundland assembly in 1885 before being elected in a by-election held in St. John's East the following year. He was unseated in 1894 and then reelected in 1897. He married Margaret Kearney. Murphy served as crown prosecutor, as a member of the Fisheries Commission and as governor of the Savings Bank. In 1904, he was named deputy minister of justice. He retired from that post in 1907 to return to the practice of law. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony Of Newfoundland
Newfoundland Colony was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland off the Atlantic coast of Canada, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. That followed decades of sporadic English settlement on the island, which was at first seasonal, rather than permanent. It was made a Crown colony in 1824 and a Dominion in 1907. Its economy collapsed during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Newfoundland relinquished its dominion status, effectively becoming once again a colony governed by appointees from the Colonial Office in Whitehall in London. In 1949, the colony voted to join Canada as the Province of Newfoundland. History Indigenous people like the Beothuk (known as the ''Skræling'' in Greenlandic Norse), and Innu were the first inhabitants of Newfoundland and Labrador. During the late 15th century, European explorers like João Fernandes Lavrador, Gaspar Corte-Real, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier and others b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |