Education
Murphy graduated from Saratoga Springs Schools in 1979. He earned his bachelor's degree from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1983. He received a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law in New York in 1986. During his second year of law school he attended University College London Law Faculty, England, where he took courses in international law, company law and law of the European Economic Community.
During that time he was employed by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and worked in particular for a Member of Parliament, Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, of Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), ultimately becoming his assistant and part time speech writer. On 13 September 2007 it was announced that Wallace was to be appointed to the House of Lords.
In 2000 Murphy graduated from the FBI Citizen’s Academy and was presented his credential by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
In 2011 Murphy he earned an Executive Education Certification from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
§==Family history & background==
James A. Murphy III was born in Saratoga Springs on October 13, 1961 to Constance King Murphy, who earned her bachelor's degree from The College of St. Rose and attended Albany Law School and is an educated but non-practicing attorney, and James A. Murphy, Jr. of Brooklyn, NY, who earned his bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and his juris doctor from Albany Law School an attorney practicing at the time in Saratoga Springs for the firm of King and Duval and later serving as mayor of Saratoga Springs. He later was a principle of the firm of King, Murphy, Adang, and Arpey, a general practice firm in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Murphy is the grandson of the late former Congressman Carleton J. King, who served as a member of the United States Congress from 1961–1974, after which President Gerald Ford appointed him Chairman of the Board of Visitors of West Point Military Academy.
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