MURPHY FOR AMERICA
Governor Larissa Murphy was born in Melrose, Massachusetts to Ernest
Murphy a Lawyer in Boston, and Christy the Director of Wetlands and Water
Waste for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who had five other
children. Larissa went to high school in Lexington MA, before graduating in
1988 and attending Oberlin College in Ohio. She left for Ohio, hoping to
enter into a major of political science, but when she arrived, recognized
the overbearing male dominance of the department and moved on.
She majored in Latin and Classical Literature. She graduated from Oberlin in
1992 and returned to her home state of Massachusetts and began
working at a law firm in Amherst. It was there that she decided to enter a
law career of her own, so she attended Boston College School of Law for
3 years before earning her Law Degree. After graduation, Governor Murphy practiced Complex Commercial Litigation and Shareholder Trials. Here she defended big businesses from wrongful claims by their shareholders. Larissa decided to leave her law practice on the wants of becoming a mother, something that was unobtainable at her demanding job. She and her husband Philip Coppinger had two children, Owen and Aidan, and Larissa entered a teaching job at Leominster High School where she taught Political Science and Government for ten years. During her time as a public school teacher, Larissa began to understand the problem with public schools in America, and how grossly underfunded they were. She became active in local politics in Worcester, where her two sons went to school, and came to realize that the only way to truly make a change in the public school system, at least in MA, was the governorship. She decided to run for Governor herself, in the hopes of significantly reforming education in the commonwealth. As Governor, she was successful at doing so, as she increased the state budget for public education, increased the number of resources available to teachers, and increased the pay of public school teachers, in the hopes of getting more people interested in teaching. She also made many advances as Governor in civil rights, by signing Equal Pay for Equal Work Legislation and increasing the rights of same-sex couples in an already socially liberal state.
Murphy a Lawyer in Boston, and Christy the Director of Wetlands and Water
Waste for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who had five other
children. Larissa went to high school in Lexington MA, before graduating in
1988 and attending Oberlin College in Ohio. She left for Ohio, hoping to
enter into a major of political science, but when she arrived, recognized
the overbearing male dominance of the department and moved on.
She majored in Latin and Classical Literature. She graduated from Oberlin in
1992 and returned to her home state of Massachusetts and began
working at a law firm in Amherst. It was there that she decided to enter a
law career of her own, so she attended Boston College School of Law for
3 years before earning her Law Degree. After graduation, Governor Murphy practiced Complex Commercial Litigation and Shareholder Trials. Here she defended big businesses from wrongful claims by their shareholders. Larissa decided to leave her law practice on the wants of becoming a mother, something that was unobtainable at her demanding job. She and her husband Philip Coppinger had two children, Owen and Aidan, and Larissa entered a teaching job at Leominster High School where she taught Political Science and Government for ten years. During her time as a public school teacher, Larissa began to understand the problem with public schools in America, and how grossly underfunded they were. She became active in local politics in Worcester, where her two sons went to school, and came to realize that the only way to truly make a change in the public school system, at least in MA, was the governorship. She decided to run for Governor herself, in the hopes of significantly reforming education in the commonwealth. As Governor, she was successful at doing so, as she increased the state budget for public education, increased the number of resources available to teachers, and increased the pay of public school teachers, in the hopes of getting more people interested in teaching. She also made many advances as Governor in civil rights, by signing Equal Pay for Equal Work Legislation and increasing the rights of same-sex couples in an already socially liberal state.
After serving only one term as Governor, Governor Murphy knew that her duty to reform public education was not over. She had successfully improved the system in MA, and now felt that she had to attempt the same nationally. When Governor Murphy announced her campaign for the 2016 Presidential Election, she was met with opposition from within her own party, being attacked for having too little experience as an Executive. But she was easily able to prove to the voters in the early primaries that she was truly the best candidate to continue the works of President Obama, and was the only nominee able to defeat the then presumptive GOP Nominee, Congressman McKenna. After the receiving the nomination of the Democratic Party at the Convention in her home state, Governor Murphy selected Florida Senator Thomas Noviello to be her running mate, citing his experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to balance out the ticket with her lack of Foreign Policy experience, in comparison to McKenna, and his running mate, former Governor Sarah Palin.
Governor Murphy and Family
Governor Murphy and son Aidan
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