Thomas D. Murphy

Thomas D. Murphy had a distinguished teaching career at the University of Hawai‘i. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his PhD from Yale University. Before coming to Hawai‘i in 1946 as a member of the university’s history department and chairman of the Hawaii War Records Committee, he taught at New Haven State Teachers College, the University of Connecticut, and Yale University. He also served as the executive director of the Connecticut War Records Commission.