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- Archibald R. Murray (August 25, 1933 – September 16, 2001) was an American lawyer born in Barbados, who became the first African-American president of the New York State Bar Association and the second African-American chairman of the executive committee of the New York City Bar Association. He immigrated to the United States in 1950, earning his Bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1954 and the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1960. Upon graduation from law school he became an assistant district attorney in New York County (Manhattan). In 1962, he became assistant counsel to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. From 1965 to 1967, he was in private practice in New York City, then became counsel to the New York State Crime Control Council until 1971. Murray served as Commissioner of the State of New York's Division of Criminal Justice Services from 1972 to 1974. On January 1, 1975, he began a lengthy career at The Legal Aid Society, serving from 1975 to 1994 as Attorney-in-Chief and Executive Director, and later as Chairman of the Board until 1998. Murray was said to have "helped to raise the standard of the free legal advice provided for poor and indigent defendants facing criminal charges in New York City." He died on September 16, 2001, in New York City, survived by his wife of 40 years, Kay Crawford Murray. (en)
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- Archibald R. Murray (August 25, 1933 – September 16, 2001) was an American lawyer born in Barbados, who became the first African-American president of the New York State Bar Association and the second African-American chairman of the executive committee of the New York City Bar Association. He died on September 16, 2001, in New York City, survived by his wife of 40 years, Kay Crawford Murray. (en)
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