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attorney general
During his tenure as attorney general, he enacted the first [[civil rights]] law in the [[Justice Department]].<ref name="oyez">{{cite web|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/frank_murphy|work=Oyez|language=English|title=Frank Murphy}}</ref>
During his tenure as attorney general, he enacted the first [[civil rights]] law in the [[Justice Department]].<ref name="oyez">{{cite web|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/frank_murphy|work=Oyez|language=English|title=Frank Murphy}}</ref>
==As a Politician==
===Mayor of Detroit===
===Governor of Michigan===
==Career in law==
==Career in law==
===U.S. Attorney Eastern District of Michigan===
===U.S. Attorney Eastern District of Michigan===
Murphy served as a United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1919-1922. He won all but one of the cases he prosecuted.
Murphy served as a United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1919-1922. He won all but one of the cases he prosecuted.
===Recorder's Court Judge===
===Recorder's Court Judge===
From 1923 to 1940, Murphy served as a Recorder's Court Judge. He presided over the famous Sweet murder trials - Dr. Ossian Sweet, an [[African-American]], had been charged with the murder of a white man who was shot outside of his home. (Sweet was acquitted after a second trial.) Gary Maveal of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law noted that "Murphy’s fairness to the prosecution and defense was remarkable; his fairness to the defendant was unique for the times."<ref name="maveal">{{cite web|author=Gary Maveal|publisher=Michigan Bar|title=Michigan Lawyers in History--Justice Frank Murphy, Michigan’s Leading Citizen|url=http://www.michbar.org/journal/article.cfm?articleID=42&volumeID=6|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
From 1923 to 1940, Murphy served as a Recorder's Court Judge. He presided over the famous Sweet murder trials - Dr. Ossian Sweet, an [[African-American]], had been charged with the murder of a white man who was shot outside of his home. (Sweet was acquitted after a second trial.) Gary Maveal of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law noted that "Murphy’s fairness to the prosecution and defense was remarkable; his fairness to the defendant was unique for the times."<ref name="maveal">{{cite web|author=Gary Maveal|publisher=Michigan Bar|title=Michigan Lawyers in History--Justice Frank Murphy, Michigan’s Leading Citizen|url=http://www.michbar.org/journal/article.cfm?articleID=42&volumeID=6|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
===Attorney General===
President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] nominated Murphy to serve as the [[United States Attorney General]] in 1939; there Murphy established a Civil Liberties SEction in the Criminal Division of the [[Department of Justice]].<ref name="maveal"/>
===Tenure on the Supreme Court===
===Tenure on the Supreme Court===