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{{Short description|United States Navy admiral}}
{{other people||Daniel Murphy (disambiguation){{!}}Daniel Murphy}}
{{Infobox military person
|name=Daniel Murphy
|birth_date= March 24, 1922
|death_date= {{death date and age|2001|9|21|1922|3|24}}
|image=D._J._Murphy_428-GX-271-KN-28684.jpg
|image_size=250
|caption=Pictured as a rear admiral in 1973
|birth_place=[[Brooklyn, New York City]], U.S.
|death_place=[[Rockville, Maryland]], U.S.
|placeofburial=[[Arlington National Cemetery]]
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
|allegiance= [[United States of America]]
|branch= [[File:United States Department of the Navy Seal.svg|25px]] [[United States Navy]]
|serviceyears=1943–1977
|rank= [[File:US-O10 insignia.svg|38px]] [[Admiral (United States)|Admiral]]
|unit=
|commands=[[United States Sixth Fleet|Sixth Fleet]]<br />{{USS|Bennington|CV-20|6}}
|battles= [[World War II]]<br>[[Vietnam War]]
|awards=[[Defense Distinguished Service Medal]]<br />[[Navy Distinguished Service Medal|Distinguished Service Medal]]<br />[[Legion of Merit]] (2)
}}
'''Daniel Joseph Murphy Sr.''' (March 24, 1922 – September 21, 2001) was a four-star [[Admiral (United States)|admiral]] in the [[United States Navy]] and an official in the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] and [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administrations.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|author=Eric Pace|title=Adm. Daniel J. Murphy, 79; Served in Wars and Government|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 27, 2001|page=A18}}</ref>

Murphy grew up in [[Brooklyn]], and graduated from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] and the [[Naval War College]].<ref name=nyt/> He joined the Navy in 1943, during his second year at [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]] in New York, and flew [[Anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine patrols]] over the [[Battle of the Atlantic|North Atlantic during World War II]].

During the 1960s he was [[commanding officer]] of the [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|Bennington|CV-20|6}}. He commanded the [[United States Sixth Fleet|Sixth Fleet]] in the Mediterranean during the [[Yom Kippur War|Arab-Israeli War of 1973]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus|Cyprus crisis of 1974]]. He retired from active service in 1977. Murphy's son, Vice Admiral Daniel J. Murphy Jr., later also commanded the Sixth Fleet, from 1998 to 2000.

Murphy was principal military assistant to successive [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretaries of Defense]] [[Melvin R. Laird]] and [[Elliot Richardson]], [[Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|deputy director of the CIA]] in 1976 and 1977, and Deputy [[Under Secretary of Defense for Policy]] at [[the Pentagon]] from 1977 to 1980 under [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref name=LATimesObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-27-me-50521-story.html | title=Adm. Daniel J. Murphy, 79; Planned Anti-Drug Effort, Aide to V.P. Bush|author=Oliver, Myrna|date=September 27, 2001|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=May 28, 2017}}</ref>

He was Vice President [[George H. W. Bush]]'s [[Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States|chief of staff]] from 1981 to 1985.<ref name=what_it_takes>{{cite book|author=Cramer, Richard Ben|title=What It Takes: The Way to the White House|year=1993|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-679-74649-2|pages=14–15}}</ref> During this period, a covert team of military operatives led by Vice-Admiral [[Arthur S. Moreau Jr.]] was sometimes run out of his office.  His involvement in the [[Iran-Contra affair]] may have been greater than was realised at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n02/seymour-m-hersh/the-vice-presidents-men|title=The Vice President's Men|author=Hersh, Seymour M.|date=24 January 2019|website=London Review of Books|publisher=LRB Limited |accessdate=17 January 2019}}</ref>

At the end of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s first term, Murphy left government to join the Washington D.C. lobbying and public relations firm Gray and Company (later [[Hill & Knowlton|Hill & Knowlton Worldwide]]) as a vice chairman.  He later founded Murphy & Associates in Georgetown providing public affairs and consulting support to U.S. and international firms. He facilitated former president George H.W. Bush's celebratory visit to Kuwait in 1993.

He died at the age of 79 in 2001 of a [[stomach]] [[aneurysm]].<ref name=nyt/><ref name=LATimesObit/> He was buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgZtdXJwaHkSBmRhbmllbBoBag--/ Burial Detail: Murphy, Daniel J] – ANC Explorer</ref>

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{{s-bef|before=[[Gerald E. Miller]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=Commander-in-Chief of the [[United States Sixth Fleet]]|years=June 1973–September 1974}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Frederick C. Turner]]}}
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{{s-bef|before=[[Richard Moe]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States]]|years=1981–1985}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Craig L. Fuller]]}}
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==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/us/adm-daniel-j-murphy-79-served-in-wars-and-government.html New York Times obituary]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171220234820/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/admiral-daniel-j-murphy-9162086.html The Independent obituary]

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