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Short bio

Morgan W. W. Murphy is a former White House official and press secretary to the Secretary of Defense. An Alabama native and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he served in 2025 as head of public diplomacy for the President’s Special Envoy to Russia and Ukraine, and earlier as national security advisor to U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville. He is the author of five books and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Full bio

Morgan W. W. Murphy is a former White House official and press secretary to the Secretary of Defense. An Alabama native, he has served at the highest levels of American government: in the White House, at the Pentagon and in the United States Senate.

From February to October 2025 he was head of public diplomacy for the President’s Special Envoy to Russia and Ukraine. Before that he was a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute, where he helped craft the President’s national security agenda; national security advisor to U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) from 2021 to 2023; and, during the first Trump administration, press secretary to the Secretary of Defense. He is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and has served on four continents.

A longtime writer, he is the author of five books, including Off the Eaten Path: On the Road Again, which launched as the #1 bestselling paperback in the country according to Publishers Weekly. His byline has appeared in The Daily Caller, The Washington Times, Newsmax, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Forbes, Southern Living and 1819 News, and he has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, the Travel Channel, QVC, the Today Show, CNN, SiriusXM and NPR.

Murphy holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, where he was a member of Exeter College, completed Joint Professional Military Education at the U.S. Naval War College in 2019, and graduated cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College with a B.A. in English. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with his son, Wells, and their dog, Chester.

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Quick facts

Name

Morgan W. W. Murphy (also “Morgan Murphy”)

Based in

Birmingham, Alabama

Most recent role

Head of public diplomacy, Office of the President’s Special Envoy to Russia & Ukraine (Feb–Oct 2025)

Government

Press secretary to the Secretary of Defense (2020–21); national security advisor to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (2021–23)

Think tank

Senior fellow, America First Policy Institute (2023–25)

Education

Oxford (MBA, Exeter College); U.S. Naval War College (JPME, 2019); Birmingham-Southern College (B.A. English, cum laude)

Books

Bourbon & Bacon · Second Helpings · Off the Eaten Path · Off the Eaten Path: On the Road Again · I Love You — Now Hush

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