Greg Murphy

Gregory Francis Murphy (born March 5, 1963) is an American politician and urologist representing North Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019.

Murphy performed medical missionary work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Murphy served as president of a medical practice and also as Chief of Staff of Vidant Medical Center.

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As a result of Chinese espionage at American universities, Murphy introduced the INFLUENCE Act, aimed at reducing the number of Chinese nationals attending American higher education institutions.

While requiring higher education institutions to report gifts of $50,000 or more from a foreign source, Murphy's legislation also establishes interagency coordination on the enforcement of any violations exposing U.S. national security projects.

He served as a representative in the North Carolina General Assembly from 2015 to 2019.

Murphy was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Needham B. Broughton High School.

After high school, he attended Davidson College as an Edward Crosland Stuart Scholar.

He then completed medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.

After completing his residency in urology and renal transplantation at the University of Kentucky, Murphy and his wife settled in Greenville, North Carolina, where he began his medical practice.

Murphy has traveled as a medical missionary.

When he was 20 years old, he spent a summer in Bihar, India, working in a Catholic leprosy hospital.

He was a member of the faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and served as Davidson College Alumni President from 2015 to 2017 while also serving on the board of trustees.

Murphy was appointed to the North Carolina General Assembly in November 2015 and served the 9th District of Pitt County, to finish the term of Brian Brown, who had resigned.

On November 8, 2016, he was elected to the seat, defeating Brian Farkas with 22,540 votes (57.52%) to Farkas's 16,648 (42.48%).

In 2017, Murphy received a Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Association of Clinical Urologists.

In 2017, he introduced the STOP Act (Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention Act), North Carolina's first major legislative initiative to confront the opioid epidemic.

Murphy then introduced the HOPE Act, which helped law enforcement curtail drug trafficking.

These two initiatives, along with other interventions, were credited with reducing North Carolina's opioid overdose deaths for the first time in over a decade.

Murphy introduced legislation that helped veterans get access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy as treatment for traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.

After the deaths of three newborns in eastern North Carolina, he introduced legislation to improve birthing standards for birth centers in North Carolina.

Murphy was reelected in 2018, defeating Kristoffer (Kris) Rixon.

During his second term in the General Assembly, Murphy served as Senior Chair of Health Policy and championed several health care initiatives.

In 2019, Murphy announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives special election in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district to replace Walter B. Jones Jr., who died in office.

Murphy won the runoff on July 9, 2019, against pediatrician Joan Perry, 59.7% to 40.3%.

In the September 10 general election, he defeated former Greenville Mayor Allen M. Thomas, 61.7% to 37.5%.

In 2020, Murphy was unopposed in the Republican primary for his seat.

He won the general election over Democratic nominee Daryl Farrow with 63.5% of the vote.

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Murphy claimed on Twitter that Joe Biden "obviously is fighting the ravages of dementia."

Questioned about the assertion by a reporter, Murphy, a urologist, said he was only echoing what the public thinks.

"The majority of American people believe he does have dementia", he said.

In an October 2020 tweet that later was deleted, Murphy called Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris a "walking disaster" who "was only picked for her color and her race".

Murphy was condemned for a tweet directed at Representative Ilhan Omar, a Muslim.

"Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol", Omar wrote after an April 2 incident.

"My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer's family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife."

Murphy responded, "Would have been worse if they had been flying planes into the buildings also".

Murphy was among 11 co-signers of a letter criticizing his alma mater, Davidson College, for recently removing a requirement that its president and most trustees be Christian.

In a May 2021 email to alumni from an official-looking address, the group said Davidson had strayed from its religious roots and "wandered into the realm of political and social activism."