1. Nathan Oakes Murphy was the tenth and fourteenth Governor of Arizona Territory.
10 Facts About Oakes Murphy
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Oakes Murphy went to the western frontier and finally settled in Prescott, Arizona, in April 1883 where he engaged in mining and the real estate business.
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Oakes Murphy was appointed secretary of Arizona Territory March 21,1889.
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Oakes Murphy served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892.
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Oakes Murphy was not a candidate for renomination in 1896.
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Oakes Murphy was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
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Oakes Murphy was interred in the Masonic Cemetery, San Diego, California but reinterred at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC in December 1909.
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Oakes Murphy was an advocate for the statehood of Arizona.
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Oakes Murphy wanted the reduction on Indian reservations in Arizona.
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Oakes Murphy worked on what is the Santa Fe Railroad, in northern Arizona.