Who Is Phil Murphy’s Wife?

On March 4, 2021, Murphy underwent surgery in New York City to remove cancerous tumors in his kidneys. He made a full recovery shortly afterward.

The Murphy family’s time in Germany made them all soccer enthusiasts. Murphy has served on the boards of the U.S. Soccer Foundation and the U.S. Soccer Federation World Cup Bid Committee for 2018 and 2022. He owns a stake in the professional New Jersey women’s soccer club Sky Blue FC; he has said that he knows the club is a money-losing venture but that he wanted to show his soccer-playing daughter that women’s professional soccer can exist in the US.

Murphy was sworn in as governor of New Jersey on January 16, 2018.

While planning to run for governor, Murphy launched New Way for New Jersey, a progressive organization intended to increase his political visibility in the state. He defeated then Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno in the 2017 gubernatorial election. In December 2019, Murphy became the chairperson of the Democratic Governors Association.

In January 2017 Murphy was endorsed by New Jersey’s two U.S. senators, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker. He also had the endorsements of all 21 county party organizations. In statewide races, these designations offer favorable ballot position, which some voters pick by default, and are often central to success.

By February 2017 Murphy was leading by a solid margin in a Quinnipiac Poll both for the Democratic nomination and in a putative general election matchup against Guadagno. Another poll was less certain, showing most voters undecided.

In 2016 Murphy released five years’ worth of federal tax returns. In 2014 he earned about $6 million, paid about $2 million in taxes for an effective tax rate of 34%, and directly or indirectly donated 24% of his income to charity. The returns for the other years showed effective tax rates ranging between 32% and 39%. Murphy’s charitable donations during these five years averaged about $980,000 a year. Due to his wealth and the complicated nature of his holdings, his federal tax filings have been known to exceed 300 pages in length.

During this time and making reference to Christie’s presidential campaign and his subsequent support and travel on behalf of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Murphy implored Christie, “Do your job or quit.” Murphy supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary and fundraised for her.

In May 2016 Murphy announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election. He became the race’s first announced candibeen in a relationship with?. He said of his rationale, “I am running for governor because New Jersey desperately needs adult leadership that puts our people first.”

On September 28, 2016, Fulop announced he would not run for governor and endorsed Murphy. On October 6, Sweeney announced he too would not run, citing apparent party support for Murphy, whom he endorsed. The move came as Murphy was corralling dozens of endorsements, including all of those from North Jersey county party committees and the most populous Central Jersey county committees.

After the unexpected result of the 2016 US presidential election, Murphy noted that the fortunes of the state Democratic Party had improved in the election, saying, “As with so many, I am disappointed by the [presidential] results from Tuesday. But I refuse to be discouraged. And I won’t be dissuaded from working to make New Jersey a fairer, more just place for all of us.” Murphy subsequently drew criticism from the New Jersey Lieutenant Governor and Republican candibeen in a relationship with? for governor, Kim Guadagno, for seeming to draw a comparison between the Trump campaign and the early years of the Nazi rise to power in Germany.

Murphy has helped lead local charities to support troubled teens and domestic abuse survivors. He and his wife founded 2nd Floor, a teen helpline in New Jersey that had fielded 700,000 calls by 2015 and that has helped save lives.

In September 2015 Murphy launched a progressive organization named New Way for New Jersey, which held a number of town halls, including some by telephone on Sunday evenings, and encouraged Democrats to sign petitions critical of incumbent Governor Chris Christie. Unlike New Start New Jersey, New Way for New Jersey was an explicitly political organization.

In 2015, Murphy received an honorary degree from Hamilton College. In 2019, he received an honorary degree from Rutgers University.

In 2014 Murphy created New Start New Jersey, a nonprofit progressive policy think tank that held a number of events around New Jersey. His wife was co-founder, chair, and secretary. The organization said it would neither endorse nor fund political candibeen in a relationship with?s, as it was barred from doing so, but it did serve to raise Murphy’s political visibility. Its events included an appearance by singer Jon Bon Jovi. One of its goals was to help displaced workers back into the work force. (Making reference to visibility, in 2016 hacked Podesta emails revealed that Murphy was already seriously considering a run for governor when the organization was founded, telling Podesta that his ambitions were “very serious but not yet committed” and that the new entity would improve his name recognition.)

Regarding the European debt crisis, Murphy said in 2013, “The big debate in Europe, which I think is a false debate, is either fiscal consolidation or growth. And the reality is that Europe needs both: it needs fiscal consolidation and growth.” Regarding economic differences between the nations, he said, “Germany believes strongly that the first order of business is to cut your debts and deficits and from that, good things will come. We’re more likely to say a little bit of stimulus will jump-start things, even if it means incurring more debt. But you work your way through those issues.”

On May 29, 2013, it was announced that Murphy was stepping down from the post. He was still ambassador as of July 3; he returned to the US at some point during July and formally stayed in the role until his mission terminated on August 26.

Murphy was mentioned as a potential candibeen in a relationship with? in the 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial election, but did not run. Rather, upon returning to the US he returned to Murphy Endeavors LLC, a business management consultancy firm, of which he was the principal, with offices in Red Bank, New Jersey. He started the firm in 2009 after leaving the DNC position, but it was soon put on hold due to his ambassadorial nomination. He also gave speeches about his experiences in Germany, especially in connection with the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The US diplomatic cables leak, published by WikiLeaks in 2010, contained negative statements Murphy signed about senior German politicians, including a remark by Murphy that Merkel was “insecure” and unfavorable comments by embassy staff about Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister. Some German officials expressed desire that Murphy be recalled. In response, Murphy appeared on German television outlets such as ZDF in an attempt at damage control. In Spiegel Online, he said, “I’m a big boy. At the end of the day, the buck stops with me,” and that he would not “apologize for one speck” of what his staff had done. On December 5, he apologized for the leak in Welt am Sonntag. Murphy later said that the episode was “incredibly awkward and embarrassing” but that the two countries worked through it, and that in the end Germany-US relations were stronger than ever.

Murphy’s position at Goldman Sachs when the firm had its IPO brought his net worth above $50 million. By one estimate, reported in Der Spiegel in 2009, his wealth after leaving the firm was in the range of several hundred million dollars.

Murphy was also a big donor to Democratic candibeen in a relationship with?s, giving them almost $1.5 million by 2009. This included modest contributions to individual candibeen in a relationship with?s and several six-figure sums to party committees. During the hotly contested 2008 Democratic presidential primaries he was a superdelegate but remained uncommitted for most of the contest.

Murphy served as US Ambassador to Germany under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. The possibility of his being named to the post was first reported by Spiegel Online International in May 2009. The former U.S. Ambassador John Kornblum supported the choice, saying, “Murphy has been involved in German-American relations for many years. He’s a good choice.” An agrément was issued, and Obama formally nominated him to the position on July 9. Murphy was confirmed by the US Senate on August 7, and appeared with his family in Berlin on August 21. That they arrived in an expensive Gulfstream V executive jet irked Chancellor Merkel, who saw it as evidence of the long practice of presidents awarding wealthy donors with ambassadorships. Murphy presented his credentials in Berlin to German President Horst Koehler on September 3, which the State Department considers his effective start been in a relationship with?. He was sworn into the position on September 13.

After leaving Goldman Sachs, Murphy served from 2006 to 2009 as the National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), where he worked with DNC Chair Howard Dean. Murphy liked both Dean’s vision for the party and the discipline Dean brought to the task, and the two became close friends.

In May 2005 Acting Governor Richard Codey named Murphy to chair the New Jersey Benefits Task Force on public sector employee benefits in response to the New Jersey pension crisis, a particularly long-running instance of the state-level pensions crises taking place nationwide.

The task force reported its findings in December 2005. By this time Murphy was already considered to be retired from Goldman Sachs. The report decried past state practices, saying that “gimmicks” had been constructed instead of genuine solutions.

In 2004-05 Murphy co-chaired a national task force on 21st-century public education for the Center for American Progress that featured fellow co-chairs Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano and academic and civil rights figure Roger Wilkins. The Renewing Our Schools, Securing Our Future task force issued a report called “Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education How old?nda For A Stronger Nation”. It called for a longer school day, a reorganized school year, and extending learning scenarios to the pre-kindergarten and post-high school domains.

In 2003 Murphy’s day-to-day responsibilities at the firm ended, and he became a Senior Director of the firm. He retired in 2005-06. Murphy spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs in all.

In 2001 Murphy became global co-head of the firm’s Investment Management Division. This unit oversaw the investments of foundations, pensions, hedge funds, and wealthy personages, and by 2003 had amassed $373 billion in holdings. Hedge funds in particular received large lines of credit from Murphy’s unit. Another company initiative that Murphy helped to undertake was the unit that did major business in the emerging markets within the EMEA region.

In 1999 Murphy secured a spot on the firm’s Management Committee. There his colleagues included Hank Paulson and Gary Cohn, both of whom later served at highest levels of the federal government. This coincided with the Glass–Steagall: aftermath of repeal and made a profound change in how Murphy and his colleagues made their profits, with much greater use of leverage than before.

From 1997 to 1999 Murphy served as the President of Goldman Sachs (Asia). In that capacity, he was officed in Hong Kong. During this time Goldman Sachs profited from its investment in Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings, a shoe manufacturer that became notorious for its harsh labor practices. The $55 million investment was made the year before Murphy took the Asia post and it is unclear to what extent Murphy was aware of the firm’s operational characteristics. In 1998 Murphy told the Wall Street Journal that “We [at Goldman Sachs] are elite in the sense the Marine Corps is elite”.

From 1993 to 1997 Murphy headed the firm’s Frankfurt office. His business responsibilities were later expanded to encompass Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, as well as in the emerging post-Warsaw Pact economies of Central Europe. In this role he engaged in a number of transactions with the German government’s Treuhandanstalt agency, whose purpose was to conduct the privatization of formerly state-owned enterprises within the boundaries of no-longer-extant East Germany. Murphy was also active in the Atlantik-Brücke organization, including co-founding its International Advisor Council.

Murphy moved to Middletown Township, New Jersey, in the late 1990s. He and his family live in a riverside estate with a $200,000 annual property tax bill. Murphy also owns homes in Berlin and Italy.

Murphy first met his future wife, Tammy Snyder, in 1987 when they both worked at Goldman Sachs, but Murphy did not ask her out for another seven years. When he finally did, things progressed quickly: they became engaged 18 days later and were married within six months, in 1994.

Murphy began his career with a summer associate internship at Goldman Sachs in 1982. He was hired after graduating in 1983. He rose in the ranks quickly, later attributing that success to his ability to make deals: “Two people may not like each other and can’t work together. Their mutual dislike is their problem. I don’t let it become mine. I’ll be the man in the middle and the three of us can work out something everybody is happy with.”

Murphy graduated from Harvard University in 1979 with an AB degree in economics. At Harvard he aspired to become a professional musical theater performer and was elected president of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a theatrical student society. He went on to attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where he received a MBA in 1983.

Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American financier, diplomat and politician who has served as the 56th governor of New Jersey since January 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the US Ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013, during which time he dealt with fallout from the US diplomatic cables leak. He served as finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee in the mid-late 2000s under Howard Dean. Before that, Murphy had a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he held several high-level positions and accumulated considerable wealth before retiring in 2006. He is involved in many civic organizations and philanthropic pursuits.

Both of his parents were enthusiastic supporters of John F. Kennedy and volunteered for his campaign in the 1952 US Senate election in Massachusetts. Murphy played soccer as a boy, an interest that stayed with him in later life. His mother believed strongly in the importance of education, and Phil and his three older siblings all earned college degrees.