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TOM E. MURRAY
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Tom E. Murray, begs leave to submit the following:
Tom E. Murray was born at Little Sioux, Iowa on August 21, 1891. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa, College of Law, in 1923, where he was All-Senior President and also president of Phi Alpha Delta. From 1923 until 1924, he practiced law in Little Sioux, Iowa; from 1924 until 1925 in Sioux City, Iowa with the law firm of Walter and Loepp; from 1925 until 1933 in his own law office in Sioux City. He was first assistant county attorney in Woodbury county from 1933 until 1937.
Mr. Murray, a Democrat, was elected to the Iowa State Senate from the Thirty-second District and served there during the Forty-seventh General Assembly. He resigned from his Senate seat when nominated for District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, but was not successful in the general election of 1938. From 1943 until 1944, he was Chief Counsel for the Office of Price Administration in the Sioux City District; from 1944 until 1953, he served as Area Rent Director for the office of Rent Control in Sioux City and was city attorney for Sioux City from 1954 until his death.
He was a member of both the Sioux City and the Iowa Bar Associations, was the first president of the Morningside Commercial Club, was a member of Tyrian Lodge 508, A.F. & A.M. in Sioux City, Iowa, the Sioux City Consistory and the Abu Bekr Shrine.
The Honorable Tom E. Murray passed away in Sioux City, Iowa on May 9, 1958. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Anne.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Tom E. Murray the state has lost a valuable, loyal and honored citizen, and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of the family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to forward an enrolled copy to each member of his family.
JACK MILLER,
LEROY GETTING,
J. T. DYKHOUSE,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.