Pennsylvania Senate
Elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1996, Murphy served as chair of the Pennsylvania Committee on Aging and Youth and wrote the Pennsylvania Patient Bill of Rights. Despite claiming to be a fiscal conservative, he pushed for increased public funding for medical research. In 2002, the political website PoliticsPA named him to the list of "Smartest Legislators." He resigned his senate seat on January 3, 2003.
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