Born in
Mansfield,
Massachusetts, Murray received a
Bachelor of Science degree from
Georgetown University in 1925 and a
Bachelor of Laws from
Georgetown Law in 1929. He was in the
United States Army Reserve as a Lieutenant from 1925 to 1935. He was in private practice in
Boston, Massachusetts from 1929 to 1938, and was then associate counsel of the New England Agency of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1938 to 1939. He was trial counsel for the
Boston Housing Authority from 1939 to 1941. He was assistant corporation counsel for Boston from 1941 to 1943 and corporation counsel from 1943 to 1945. He was again in private practice in Boston from 1945 to 1946. He was a Trustee of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company from 1945 to 1946. He was an associate justice of the
Superior Court of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1967. ==Federal judicial service==