Daniel Murphy (admiral)

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Daniel Murphy
1922 – 2001 (aged 78–79)
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, left, presents the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal to then Rear Admiral Daniel J. Murphy
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1943-1977
Rank	Admiral
Commands held	Sixth Fleet USS Bennington
Battles/wars	World War II

Admiral Daniel Joseph Murphy, Sr. (died September 21, 2001) was a four-star Admiral in the United States Navy and served in the White House during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

Murphy grew up in Brooklyn, and graduated from the University of Maryland and the Naval War College. He joined the Navy in 1943, during his second year at St. John's University in New York, and flew antisubmarine patrols over the North Atlantic during World War II.

During the 1960s he was commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington. He commanded the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974. He retired from active service in 1977. Murphy's son, Admiral Daniel Murphy, Jr. commanded the 6th Fleet from 1998 to 2000.

Murphy was principal military assistant to successive Secretaries of Defence Melvin R. Laird and Elliot Richardson, deputy director of the CIA in 1976 and 1977, and deputy undersecretary of defense for policy in the White House from 1977 to 1980 under Jimmy Carter. He was Vice President George H. W. Bush's chief of staff from 1981 to 1985. At the end of Ronald Reagan's first term, Murphy left government to join the Washington D.C. lobbying and public relations firm Hill & Knowlton Worldwide as a vice chairman.