American Legion – Benjamin Franklin – Post #405 Annual Dinner
Event Date
11/04/2017
Event Time5:30 pm;
Location
Society Hill Sheraton
1 Dock bStreet
Philadelphia, PA
Post $ 405 Annual Dinner
November 4th, 2017
Sheraton Society Hill, 1 Dock St Philadelphia
Reception and silent auction begin at 5:30PM
Patrick Joseph Murphy, our guest speaker, is a former politician from Pennsylvania who formerly served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army. He was the first veteran of the Iraq War to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district from 2007-11. Murphy is a former anchor of Taking the Hill on MSNBC and a Philadelphia-based partner at national law firm Fox Rothschild. He was confirmed as Under Secretary of the Army by the U.S. Senate on December 18, 2015, after having been nominated for the position by the President on August 5, 2015. Murphy was sworn into the post on January 4, 2016.
He is a former collegiate hockey player and a graduate of King’s College, the University of Scranton ROTC program, and the Widener University Commonwealth School of Law. Besides teaching at West Point, he has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Air Force Academy and his alma maters.
He is married and has two children.
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