Evelyn Murphy


Evelyn Murphy was the 67th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991, being the first woman in the history of the state to hold a constitutional office. She is now the president of The WAGE Project, a United States nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating wage discrimination against women a resident scholar at the Womens Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, and a corporate director.

Murphy was born in 1940 in Ancn, Panama to American citizens. Her father was stationed with the army in the Panama Canal Zone, where her mother joined him in 1939. At the age of six weeks, Murphy was brought to her grandmothers home in Massachusetts. She continued to hold dual U.S.Panamanian citizenship until the age of 19, when she took the oath of U.S. citizenship in Washington, D.C.

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