page_title: Alexander Howison Murray Jr.
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Howison Murray Jr. / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: South Fork of the American River California USA
context_page_description: Alexander Howison "Sandy" Murray Jr., was a two-time mayor of Placerville, California and three-time president of the county's chamber of commerce, who championed regional development, including the building of U.S. Route 50 in California and was a regular page-one name in the Placerville Mountain Democrat.
context_section_description: Murray made several notable and long-term contributions to California by championing:
  1940s:  US 50, which, connects West Sacramento from Interstate 80 to the Nevada state line at South Lake Tahoe, still remembered in Placerville with “Wagon Train” celebrations.
  1950s:  Local support for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley
  1980s:  Preservation of the South Fork American River – today "the most popular recreation stream in the West" for whitewater rafting in North America, e.g., 80,000 visitors in 2011.
caption: Murray supported preservation of South Fork American River – now "the most popular recreation stream in the West" for whitewater rafting[57]
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