Former Saratoga mayor, lawyer, philanthropist remembered as 'visionary'
Former Saratoga mayor, lawyer, philanthropist remembered as ‘visionary’ | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHER: Provided Jim Murphy Jr., (left) is sworn in as the youngest mayor of New York State in 1966, by Appellate Division Judge Michael Sweeney. Shares0 His son, Saratoga County Court Judge Jim Murphy, saw his father play “three-dimensional chess” firsthand growing up. “When I needed money for school clothes every year, starting in middle school, I would have to negotiate with him for how much money he would give me for a pair of pants and a T-shirt,” Murphy said. “I woul...