Murfee became a member of the
North Carolina General Assembly in 1805 and 1812 and was elected as a
Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses where he served from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures in the Fourteenth Congress. In 1823, he moved from
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, to his estate in
Williamson County, Tennessee where he died on January 19, 1827. He was buried in Murfree Cemetery, northwest of
Franklin, Tennessee. His home at Murfreesboro, North Carolina,
Melrose, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1971. His nephew,
David W. Dickinson, also served as a U.S. representative, but in Tennessee. ==Sources==