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Stephen J. Murphy was born in Dorchester and raised in Hyde Park. Steve graduated from Boston Latin School and went to Stonehill College in Easton where he drove special education students to school in between classes to pay for his degree in Business Administration. Upon graduation he was offered a full time job as Personnel Manager and within a few years worked his way to Chief Operating Officer overseeing all operations of Auto-Bus, Inc.

After Auto-Bus was sold, Steve began a career in public service working for the State Senate as a budget analyst focusing on local aid. Over the next several years, his skills were honed in the complex public financing process.

In 1997, Steve was elected as an At-Large member of the Boston City Council. As a Boston City Councilor, Steve has consistently stood for taxpayer fairness.

Steve is the leader on requiring tax-exempt institutions to pay their fair share so the burden doesn’t fall solely on property owners.

Steve has reduced run away overtime costs forcing agencies to live within their means and he saved jobs by repealing an archaic 46 year old law thereby freeing 30 million dollars in taxpayer monies back to the taxpayers.

As chair of the Ways & Means committee he successfully shepherded the city's 2.4 billion dollar budget through the process balancing the needs of the residents with the fiscal restraint for the taxpayers.

Through fiscal discipline, Boston has maintained a AA+ bond rating. Steve's astute financial acumen has earned him high praise as an authority on public finance and an excellent steward of the taxpayers’ money.

Steve currently serves as Chair of the Federal Stimulus Oversight committees in Boston. Steve is working to ensure Federal Stimulus money makes it way into the community, creating jobs and making neighborhoods better.