Patrick Murphy (Florida politician)
| Patrick Murphy | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 18th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen |
| Succeeded by | Brian Mast |
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Patrick Erin Murphy March 30, 1983 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic (2011–present) |
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Republican (Before 2011) |
| Education | University of Miami (BA) |
Patrick Erin Murphy (born March 30, 1983) is an American businessman, accountant, politician and member of the Democratic Party who had served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 18th congressional district from 2013 to 2017. He is a former Republican, who resigned from the party in 2011 as he felt it had been dishonest about the Iraq War and that it has become politically extreme.
Murphy was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012, defeating Republican incumbent Allen West by 0.8% in the most expensive U.S. House race in history. Despite the narrow Republican lean of Murphy's district, he was re-elected with 59.8% of the vote in 2014. In March 2015, he announced his intentions to run in the 2016 United States Senate election in Florida; in August 2016 he won the Democratic primary. He faced Republican incumbent Marco Rubio in the November general election, losing 52% to 44%.
Murphy was born in Miami and raised in Key Largo, the son of Tom Murphy Jr., a construction company CEO, and his second wife, Kathleen. Murphy's parents divorced when he was a child, and Murphy was later adopted by his father's third wife, Leslie. Murphy graduated from Palmer Trinity School in Miami and then went on to take a post-graduate year at the Lawrenceville School, a private prep school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in 2001-2002.
As a 19-year-old freshman college student in 2003, Murphy was arrested outside a Miami Beach nightclub on charges of disorderly intoxication and possessing a fake driver's license. The charges were ultimately dropped. Murphy called the incident "the biggest mistake of my life" and the "biggest learning experience of my life."
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