PERSON: Patrick Murphy (Florida Congressman)

U.S. House of Representatives from Florida’s 18th district

Member (Fmr.)

Patrick Erin Murphy (born March 30, 1983) is an American businessman, accountant, politician and member of the Democratic Party who had served as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 18th congressional district from 2013 to 2017. He is a former Republican, who resigned from the party in 2011 as he felt it had been dishonest about the Iraq War and that it has become politically extreme.

Murphy was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012, defeating Republican incumbent Allen West by 0.8% in the most expensive U.S. House race in history. Despite the narrow Republican lean of Murphy’s district, he was re-elected with 59.8% of the vote in 2014. In March 2015, he announced his intentions to run in the 2016 United States Senate election in Florida; in August 2016 he won the Democratic primary. He faced Republican incumbent Marco Rubio in the November general election, losing 52% to 44%.

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