US Congressman, Entrepreneur, Journalist, Author, Editor, Publisher. He was a United States Representative from the State of Kansas. He was born one of seven children as Victor Spurlock Murdock to Marshall Marcellus Murdock (1837-1908), the editor of Osage County Chronicle Newspaper in Osage County, Kansas, and his wife Victoria Mayberry Murdock (1841-1914), in Burlingame, Kansas, on March 18, 1871. His family relocated to Wichita, Kansas, when he was still an infant in 1872. He was educated locally and he received a local common school education and attended the prestigious Lewis Academy in Wichita, Kansas, and began learning the printing trade. Following his education, he became a reporter when he was fifteen years old. He then spent time working for the Chicago Inter-Ocean Newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, whose editors included Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897), a journalist, author, and senior government official, and Byron Andrews (1852-1910), a journalist for the Chicago Inter-Ocean Newspaper, private secretary to United States President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), on his Industrial Excursions to Mexico and Cuba, a statesman, a lecturer and an author, and the third owner and journalist of the National Tribune Newspaper and Publishing Company in Washington, D.C. in 1890. He also reported on the United States Representative from the State of Ohio and future President of the United States William McKinley's campaign for the Governor of Ohio in 1892, and he also became the Managing Editor of the Wichita Eagle Newspaper, serving in that position from 1894 to 1903. During this time, he also served as a Clerk of the Central Division, in the Southern Department, of the Kansas Appellate Court from 1895 to 1897. He then covered the Kansas State Legislature as a reporter when he took an interest in politics and decided to run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Chester Isaiah Long (1860-1934), who had resigned causing a vacancy so that he could take his seat in the United States Senate on May 26, 1903. He took office on November 9, 1903. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Kansas's 7th District (Fifty-Eighth Congress and Fifty-Ninth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from May 26, 1903, to March 3, 1907. His 7th District was then redistricted when a new district was created into the 8th District. Following his first term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Edmond Haggard Madison (1865-1911), on March 4, 1907. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Kansas's 8th District (the Sixtieth Congress, the Sixty-First Congress, the Sixty-Second Congress, and the Sixty-Third Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1915. While serving in the United States Congress, he left the Republican Party during the United States Presidential Election in 1912, to support and join former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party, becoming the Progressive Party's choice for Speaker of the House also in 1912. He was not a Candidate for nomination in 1914 but was an unsuccessful Candidate for nomination as a Member of the Progressive Party (Bull Moose), to the United States Senate (Class 3), in 1914. In total, he was elected to finish United States Representative Chester Isaiah Long's term, reelected in 1904, redistricted to the 8th District, redistricted from the 7th District, reelected in 1906, reelected in 1908, reelected in 1910, reelected in 1912, and retired to run for United States Senator in 1914. He was also elected to serve a term as Chairman of the Progressive Party from 1914 to 1916. That same year, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), now the former President of the United States refused to run and instead, the Progressive Party nominated Victor Murdock for President, but he did not appear on the ballot. Following his second and final term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative William Augustus Ayres (1867-1952), on March 4, 1915. After leaving the United States Congress, he worked as a war correspondent during World War I, from 1916 to 1917. He was then appointed by then-President of the United States Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), to serve a term as a Member of the Federal Trade Commission from September 4, 1917, until his resignation on January 11, 1924. He also served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1919, 1920, 1922, and again in 1923. Following his retirement from that post, he became the editor of The Wichita Eagle Newspaper in Wichita, Kansas, from 1924 until his death on July 8, 1945, at the age of 74. During his lifetime, he was also a member of several prominent organizations and clubs including the University Club and the Congressional Club. He also wrote three books, "China, The Mysterious And Marvelous," "Constantinople," and "Folks." On an interesting note, he once estimated that he had interviewed more than 3,000 pioneers in writing his page one features, and his ability to coin phrases was widely known. He is also credited as giving United State Representative Jeremiah "Jerry" Simpson (1842-1905), his nickname of "Sockless Jerry." He passed away following a long illness at Wesley Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, on July 8, 1945, at the age of 74. Following his death, his funeral services were held through Gull Mortuary in Wichita, Kansas, at St. James Episcopal Church in Wichita, Kansas, with the Reverend Dr. Samuel Earnest West Sr. (1889-1952), Rector of the church officiating. Following the funeral services, he was buried in the Old Mission Mausoleum in Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas. He was married to Mary Pearl Allen Murdock (1874-1940), in 1890, with whom he had eight children, including Marcia Murdock Delano (1896-1957), and Katherine Murdock Fleeson Henderson (1906-1997). His wife Mary predeceased him passing away in New York, New York, on April 21, 1940, at the age of 65, and she is also buried in the Old Mission Mausoleum in Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas. His brother Marcellus Marion Murdoch (1883-1970), was an early editor and publisher of The Wichita Eagle Newspaper in Wichita, Kansas, for many years..