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Show Abe Murdock Beaver solon dies at age 86 Roosevelt was elected. He represented the state until his defeat by Arthur Watkins in the 1946 Senate Race. Rep. Murdock recognized early the importance of sufficient suf-ficient water to the development develop-ment of Utah. "The most vital problem confronting Utah today is protection pro-tection of her interests in the waters of the Colorado River," he said in 1937. Active in politics most of his life, first at the state level and later in the national Democratic Party. He was chairman of the credentials committee of the 1944 Democratic Demo-cratic National Convention in Chicago. When he stepped down from the National Labor Relations Board in 1957, the board said: "Your full decade of service has been characterized by the highest devotion to the duties of your office." He had lived in retirement in the Washington Wash-ington area since. Senator Murdock was a member of the Church of Jesus Je-sus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He married Mary V. Yard-ley, Yard-ley, October 2, 1913, in Bea ver. She died in 1962. Surviving are two sons.Wil-liam sons.Wil-liam O., Windham, N.H.; Riggs, Ogden; two daughters, Mary Christensen, Chevy Chase Md; Cinda Sengstack, Bethesda; 20 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Ray, Rockville.Md. Funeral Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Beaver LDS Ward Chapel. Friends may call at Olpin Mortuary, Beaver Thursday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. and Friday morning an hour prior to services. Burial will be in Beaver Cemetery. Abe Murdock, 86, former U.S. senator and congressman from Utah, died of natural causes Saturday in a Bethesda, Beth-esda, Maryland. He served from 1932-40 as Utah's First District Representative Rep-resentative and one term as senator during World War II. A Democrat, Mr. Murdock Mur-dock was a strong supporter of the 'New Deal' policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. After 14 years on Capitol Hill, he was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to a post on the National Labor La-bor Relations Board, where he served for 10 years. He was a steady backer of organized or-ganized labor. He served as BeaverCounty attorney and Beaver City attorney at-torney for several years. He-was He-was also a Beaver City Councilman. Coun-cilman. lie was elected to the House of Representatves in 1932 the same year President A native of Austin, Nevada he was born July 18, 1893 to Orrice A. and Cinda Robinson Rob-inson Murdock. He moved to Beaver at an early age and attended schools there. After studying law in San Francisco and at the University Univer-sity of Utah, he passed the Utah Bar examination in 1922 and opened a practice in Beaver. |