Eugene Murphy

Eugene Grimes Murphy
Born	1894 Fort William, Ontario
Died	1933-10 New York City
Occupation	Lawyer, mayor
Father	James Murphy
Siblings	Frank X. Murphy

Eugene Grimes Murphy (1894 – October 1933) was a lawyer and mayor of Fort William, the son of James Murphy. He was the first Fort William mayor born in the city and the first born to a former mayor. He studied at Loyola College in Montreal, served in England with the Canadian Forestry Corps, trained as a Royal Flying Corps cadet, was called to the Ontario bar in November 1919 and opened his own firm in March 1920. He was a councillor from 1924 to 1928, then became president of his father's company, and was mayor in 1931–1932 (winning by a few dozen votes over Nathaniel Bascome Darrell and then acclaimed), a period that saw the Neebing River interceptor sewer finished in December 1932. He died in October 1933 after falling from a tenth-storey window of a New York hotel, a death the city's history says some attributed to heart trouble and others to suicide.