Emmett Louis Murphy

Emmett Louis Murphy (May 30, 1897 in Colon, Nebraska – June 8, 1970 in Omaha, Nebraska) was an attorney and civic leader from Omaha, Nebraska. He served as assistant attorney general from 1937 to 1945, was federal bankruptcy referee from 1950 to 1962, and was on the board of directors of the National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy from 1957 to 1962. He was the governor of the Nebraska-Iowa district of the Kiwanis club in 1948 and vice-president of Omaha Catholic Charities in 1949 and 1950. He was remembered a “having a brilliant legal career, being a strong supporter of education, both public and parochial, and quietly assisting many young people who needed help”.

Murphy was born in Colon, Nebraska on 30 May 1897 to John Murphy (born in Kilkenny, Ireland) and Mary Delaney (a first generation Irish-American born in Pennsylvania). He was reared on his father’s Saunders County, Nebraska farm and attended high school at Cedar Bluffs as a part of a class of 5 (all 5 would attend their 50th anniversary many years later along with the school’s faculty of 2). Cedar Bluffs only had 11 grades, so he attended 12th grade at Creighton Prep in Omaha. In July 1918 he shipped off to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station to serve in the US Navy in World War I after 3 years at Creighton University. He never went abroad and returned home Christmas Day that year. On 14 October 1919 he married Georgia Adams, daughter of Clarence Ellsworth Adams and Bertie May Swigert. After the war, he spent two years practicing law in Falls City, Nebraska before coming to Omaha to work as a lawyer in 1921.

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