Background
An eighth-generation Texan, Murr is a maternal grandson of former Governor Coke R. Stevenson, who died in 1975, two years before Murr was born.
An eighth-generation Texan, Murr is a maternal grandson of former Governor Coke R. Stevenson, who died in 1975, two years before Murr was born.
Murr graduated from Junction High School and Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in College Station, with a degree in education.
While at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, he worked in Washington District of Columbia on agricultural and natural resource policy matters, and in Austin as an assistant committee clerk for the Texas House Natural Resources Committee. He subsequently received a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the Texas Technical University School of Law in Lubbock. The Murrs raise cattle and operate the Telegraph Title Company in Junction.
Murr sits on the board of Junction National Bank.
He is a past president of the Farm Bureau of Kimble and Edwards counties and his local Rotary International. He is a past chairman of the executive committee of the Concho Valley Council of Governments.
He has also served on the Concho Valley Transit District, the Kimble County Historical Commission, the Kimble County Youth Show, and the Hill Country Fair Association. After practicing briefly in Dallas, Murr returned to Junction to establish his own law practice.
As county judge, he was chairman of the regional Juvenile Board, which supervises probation in several counties.
In the Republican primary election for state representative held on March 4, 2014, Murr handily led a five-candidate field with 10,089 votes (413 percent) and was placed into a runoff election on May 27 with the runner-up, Robert Earl "Rob" Henneke (also born 1977) and a lawyer in Kerrville, who received 7,051 votes (289 percent).Murr then defeated Henneke, 9,387 (606 percent) to 6,100 (394 percent). In the November 4 general election, Murr had no Democrat opposition and defeated the Libertarian nominee, Maximiliam Martin, 36,878 votes (899 percent) to 4,139 (101 percent). The District 53 House seat was vacated after twenty-six years by Harvey Hilderbran of Kerrville, who ran unsuccessfully against Glenn Hegar for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in the March 4 primary.
He moved rapidly in local political circles, having been elected county attorney and then county judge of Kimble County, a position which he filled for five years until September 30, 2013, when he resigned to run for the Texas House.Murr"s grandfather had also held the same positions of county attorney, county judge, and state representative, with a stint as well as House Speaker. In 2011, then Governor Rick Perry named Murr to the Concho Valley Regional Review Board.