Murphy Sworn in as State Senator for the 40th District

Dr. Terrence Murphy, the newly-elected State Senator for the 40th District, was officially sworn in as a member of the New York State Senate on Thursday.

The inauguration ceremony was held at the Yorktown Stage, in his hometown of Yorktown. About 600 people attended.

New York’s 40th District includes the towns of Beekman, Pawling and the village of Pawling in Dutchess County, the towns of Carmel, Patterson and Southeast, and the village of Brewster in Putnam County, and the city of Peekskill, the towns of Cortlandt, Lewisboro, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, North Salem, Pound Ridge, Somers and Yorktown, the town/village of Mount Kisco, and the villages of Briarcliff Manor, Buchanan, Croton-on-Hudson, Pleasantville and Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

Click here to read his inaugural speech.

His district office is temporarily located on the third floor of the Putnam County Office Building, 40 Gleneida Ave, Carmel. The phone number is 845-279-3773.

In Albany, his temporary office is LOB 817 and the phone number is 518-455-3111.

PHOTOS/contributed

L-R: Surrounded by his sons, Jack and Kian, wife Caroline and daughter McKayla, State Senator Terrence Murphy, 48, receives the oath of office from New York State Appellate Court Judge Mark Dillon, at the Yorktown Stage on January 1, 2015.

On January 1st at the Yorktown Stage in his hometown of Yorktown, State Senator Terrence Murphy addresses a crowd of six hundred plus attendees at his inauguration ceremony.