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Patrick J. Murphy, Nominee for Under Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense
Patrick
J. Murphy is a Partner at the law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Center for
American Progress. He has also served
on the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy since
2011. As the first Iraq War veteran elected to the U.S. Congress, Mr.
Murphy represented the 8th District of Pennsylvania in the United States
House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
He served on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Appropriations
Committee. From 2003 to 2004, he was deployed to Iraq as a paratrooper
with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, where he
earned the Bronze Star for Service. In 2001, Mr. Murphy volunteered
for overseas deployment and was deployed to Bosnia in 2002. Prior to
that, he served as a commissioned officer in the Army Reserve from 1996
to 2000. Mr. Murphy received a B.A. from King’s
College and a J.D. from Widener University School of Law.
I have to admit that I'm partial to fellow vet Murphy a graduate of
King's College who had the honor of introducing President Clinton when
he visited Wilkes-Barre in 1996. The first time I met him he told me "I read your blog." He attended the fall 2011 Blogfest driving through a monsoon to get there. He has been hosting a Sunday show on MSNBC "Taking
the Hill" that focused on military service, progressive politics, and
national service.
I thought he was the better candidate in the 2012 Attorney General race than Kathleen Kane. Headlines like this prove me right.
