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Jun 15, 2008 4:33 pm US/Eastern

Arthur W. Murphy Passes Away Of MS Complications

BALTIMORE (AP) ― Political adviser Arthur W. Murphy has died of complications from multiple sclerosis. He was 57.

Relatives say the lifelong Baltimore resident died Friday at Lorien Mays Chapel hospice in Timonium after a long struggle with the disease.

Murphy, son of civil rights activists William H. Murphy Sr. and Madeline W. Murphy and brother of prominent defense lawyer William H. "Billy" Murphy Jr., got his start in politics in 1970 successfully managing his father's judgeship campaign.

Winning a spot on Baltimore's then white-dominated Municipal Court was a breakthrough for a black man.

His clients included former Virginia Govs. L. Douglas Wilder and Charles S. Robb, who later was a U.S. senator, and state Sen. John A. Pica Jr.

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