Walter Francis Murphy, Jr. (November 21, 1929 – April 20, 2010) was a 20th century American

United States

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 political scientist and writer

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Biography

Born in Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

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, he won a Distinguished Service Cross

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 for his service as a Marine

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 in Korea

Korean War

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, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel

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. He held the chair of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton

Princeton University

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. His professional writing, consisting mostly of non-fiction works on political science, included the classic Constitutional Democracy; he has also wrote three popular novel

Novel

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Murphy's name was on the “Selectee List

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Sources

• The Charleston Post and Courier