Alfred James "Fred" Murdoch was a New Zealand politician, born 18 April 1877 and died 1 June 1960, who represented the Marsden electorate across three separate terms between 1922 and 1954, sitting first as an Independent Liberal, then United Party, then from 1943 National Party. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Mines from 1930 to 1931 in the United Government, having retired from schoolteaching in 1919 to farm and breed Jersey cattle, and went on to chair the New Zealand Dairy Board.
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