William H. Murfree

Who was William H. Murfree?

William Hardy Murfree was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina born in Hertford County, North Carolina on October 2, 1781.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1801 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar practiced in Edenton, North Carolina.

He became a member of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1805 and 1812 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses where he served from March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1817. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures in the Fourteenth Congress

In 1823, he moved from Murfreesboro, North Carolina, to his estate in Williamson County, Tennessee where he died on January 19, 1827. He was buried in Murfree Cemetery, northwest of Franklin, Tennessee.