William H. Murfree

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William Hardy Murfree (October 2, 1781 – January 19, 1827) was a politician from North Carolina who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was born in Hertford County, NC, studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduated 1801), and practiced in Edenton. He served in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1805 and 1812.

Murfree was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses, representing North Carolina’s 1st district from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817. In the Fourteenth Congress he was the Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures.

In 1823 he moved from Murfreesboro, NC to his Tennessee estate in Williamson County, where he died in 1827 at age 45. He is buried at Murfree Cemetery near Franklin, Tennessee. His home Melrose in Murfreesboro, NC is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His nephew, David W. Dickinson, also served as a U.S. representative, but from Tennessee.