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

Early life and education Murphy was born in Tarrytown, New York and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Needham B. Broughton High School, graduating as valedictorian. 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 with honors and as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.

Medical career 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. 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. 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.

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

In 2019, Murphy received a Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

North Carolina General Assembly

Elections 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%).

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

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

State legislative committees

Standing or Select CommitteeStatusAlcoholic Beverage ControlMemberAppropriationsVice-chairmanAppropriations, Health and Human ServicesChairmanEducation - UniversitiesMemberEnergy and Public UtilitiesMemberHealthChairmanHealth Care ReformMemberHouse Select Committee on Disaster ReliefMemberInsuranceMember

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections 2019 special

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%.

2020 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. Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Subcommittee on Trade Joint Committee on Printing

Caucus memberships For the 118th Congress: Doctors Caucus Military Depot and Industrial Facilities Caucus Southern Border Caucus Shipbuilding Caucus Taiwan Caucus Conservative Climate Caucus Republican Study Committee Congressional Coalition on Adoption Congressional Western Caucus

Tenure

On March 19, 2024, Murphy introduced a bill to the 118th Congress that would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965. The amendment would ban graduate medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion training and offices from receiving any federal funds.

In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Murphy wrote that DEI training is "dangerous everywhere" and that it will lead to "future physicians less qualified to meet patients' needs."

Political positions Chinese espionage 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.

Joe Biden

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. Murphy also claimed Biden had ‘so much plastic surgery’.

Kamala Harris

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". "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".

Texas v. Pennsylvania In December 2020, Murphy was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.

Objection during 2021 United States Electoral College vote count

In January 2021, Murphy was one of several Republican members of the House, led by Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who declared that they would formally object to the counting of the electoral votes of five swing states won by Biden during the January 6 joint session.

At least 140 House Republicans reportedly planned to vote against the counting of electoral votes, despite the lack of any credible allegation of an irregularity that would have affected the election, and the allegations' rejections by courts, election officials, the Electoral College, and others,

Murphy said in a press release the day before the joint session, "I have been quite vocal in stating that to preserve the integrity of our elections, we must fight to ensure that every voice is heard, every legal vote is counted, and every count is confirmed", adding that he believed the actions of executive officials and judges in several states were "at best troubling and at worst seditious."

After the storming of the United States Capitol by a mob of rioters supporting Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Murphy voted to agree with the objection to Pennsylvania's results.

Second impeachment of Donald Trump Murphy did not cast a vote on Trump's second impeachment on January 13, 2021. He released a statement that he "strongly opposed" the impeachment but he would miss the vote because he was with his wife as she recovered from a surgery.

Personal life Murphy lives in Greenville, North Carolina. He is Catholic. Murphy was diagnosed with a pitutuitary macroadenoma in May 2024. He received follow-up treatment in December 2025.

Electoral history