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early days of governorship
===Governor of Michigan===
===Governor of Michigan===
Murphy returned from the Philippines to run against [[incumbent]] Frank Fitzgerald for the Governorship of Michigan - he won by a narrow margin. When Murphy took office, more than 100,000 [[General Motors]] workers were in the third day of a sit-down strike in Flint.<ref name="maveal"/> On January 11th, 1937, policed stormed the protestors, leading to a brawl that ended with 27 injured.<ref name="bak"/> Murphy called in the [[National Guard]] to protect the protestors, ignored a court order to remove the strikers and served as a mediator between the [[United Auto Workers]] and GM; on February 11th he announced an agreement had been made.<ref name="bak"/>
==Career in law==
==Career in law==