MURRAY, Eli Houston, governor of Utah, born in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, 12 September, 1844. He entered the United States army as a volunteer at seventeen years of age, commanded a brigade in Kentucky in 1862-'3, and in 1865 received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers for services during the civil war. He was appointed United States marshal for Kentucky in 1866, and held office till 1876, when he became manager of the Louisville, Kentucky, "Commercial." He was appointed governor of Utah by President Hayes in 1880, reappointed by President Arthur in 1884 for a term of four years, but resigned before its completion. Throughout his administration he opposed the encroachments of the Mormon church and the advance of polygamy.