John Murray - Law and Politics

Law and Politics

• John Murray (died before 1640), MP for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency)
• Sir Hubert Murray (John Hubert Plunkett Murray, 1861–1940), judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
• John E. Murray, Jr. (born 1932), professor of Law and Chancellor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• John L. Murray (representative) (1806–1842), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• John L. Murray (born 1943), Irish judge
• John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (1631–1703), leading Scottish royalist
• John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660–1724), Scottish nobleman and politician
• John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729–1774), MP for Perthshire 1761–1764, Lord of the Isle of Man from 1764–1765
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), colonial governor of Virginia and later the Bahamas
• John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755–1830), Scottish peer
• John Murray, 5th Duke of Atholl (1778–1846), British Army officer and landowner in Scotland
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet (c. 1768–1827), British Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett 1807–1811, Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811–1818
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (born 1929), British peer
• John Murray, Lord Murray (1779–1859), British Member of Parliament for the Leith Burghs, 1832–1839
• John Murray (d. 1753), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1725–1734, Selkirkshire, 1734–1753
• Lord John Murray (1711–1787), British General and Member of Parliament for Perthshire, 1734–1761
• John Murray (1726–1800), British Member of Parliament for the Linlithgow Burghs, 1754–1761
• John Murray (British diplomat) (died 1775), Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1765–1775
• John Murray (colonial administrator) (1739–1824), governor of the Cape Breton colony in today's Nova Scotia, see Demerara rebellion of 1823
• John Murray (congressman) (1768–1834), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
• John Murray, Lord Bowhill (died 1714), member of the first Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1708
• John Murray (MP for Leeds West) (1879–1964), Scottish civil servant, university administrator and Liberal Party politician
• John Murray (New South Wales politician) (born 1939), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003
• John Murray (Queensland politician) (1915–2009), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1961
• John Murray (pastoralist) (1837–1917), member of the Queensland Parliament from 1888 to 1903
• John Murray (Victoria politician) (1851–1916), Premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912
• John Murray of Broughton (c. 1718–1777), Jacobite and secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• John Porry Murray (1830–1895), Confederate politician
• John Wilson Murray (1840–1906), Scottish-born police detective who worked in the USA and Canada during the late 19th/early 20th centuries