Patrick V. Murphy nasceu o 15 de maio de 1920 em Brooklyn, Nova York, EUA. Foi casado com Martha E. Cameron. Morreu o 16 de dezembro de 2011 em Wilmington, Carolina do Norte, EUA.
He was one of eight children of Irish immigrants of Patrick Murphy and his wife, Ellen "Nellie" Jones" from County Cork, Ireland before they immigrated to the United States.