Herbert Frazier Murray
Born 12/29/1923 · Died 7/12/1999
Judicial Career
- judMDD7/29/1971 – 7/12/1999
Biography
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Herbert Frazier Murray (December 29, 1923 – July 12, 1999) was an American attorney and judge who was Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Maryland from 1954 to 1956 and a district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1971 to 1988.
Education and career
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Born in Waltham , Massachusetts , Murray was in the United States Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1947 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1951. He was a law clerk Judge William Calvin Chesnut of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1951 to 1952. He was in private practice in Baltimore , Maryland from 1952 to 1954. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Maryland from 1954 to 1956. He returned to private practice in Baltimore from 1956 to 1971.
Federal judicial service
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Murray was nominated by President Richard Nixon on July 19, 1971, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge Roszel Cathcart Thomsen . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 29, 1971, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1988. Stefan Passantino served as his law clerk . Murray served in that capacity until his death on July 12, 1999, in Baltimore.
References
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Herbert Frazier Murray at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .
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- Herbert Frazier Murray at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .
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