Background
Murphy, Henry Cruse was born on July 5, 1810 in Brooklyn. Son of John G. and Clarissa (Runyon) Murphy.
Murphy, Henry Cruse was born on July 5, 1810 in Brooklyn. Son of John G. and Clarissa (Runyon) Murphy.
Graduate Columbia, 1830.
Admitted to New York bar, 1830. City attorney Brooklyn, 1834. Mayor Brooklyn, 1842.
Member United States House of Representatives from New York (Democrat), 28th, 30th congresses, 1843-1845, 47-49.
United States minister to Netherlands, 1857-1861. Member of New York Senate, 1861-1873.
Chief editorial writer Brooklyn Advocate. Proprietor, associate editor Brooklyn Eagle.
A founder Long Island History Society, Brooklyn City Library.
Translator various journals and history tracts from the Dutch. Owner one of finest collections early Americana of his time. Author: Henry Hudson in Holland, 1859.
The First Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States, 1857.
Member United States House of Representatives from New York (Democrat), 28th, 30th congresses, 1843-1845, 47-49. Member of New York Senate, 1861-1873.
Married Amelia Greenwood, July 29, 1833, 2 children.