New-York tribune., 1921-02-22
Daugherty for 20 Years
Close Friend of Harding
Began Life as Errand Boy,
Studied Lac and Figured in
Many Ohio Political FIGHTS

Harry NJ. Daugherty, re-convention
manager for President elect Harding,
and who has been selected for the post
of Attorney General in the Hard ng
Cabinet, has been q close friend and
counselor of the President for
twenty years.
Mr.. Daugherty was born January &c
1860, at Washington Court House, Fay
cite County, Ohio, the son of John II
and Jane Draper Daugt erty The fam
lily had moved to Ohio from Virginia
in the pioneer days. During his boy
hood MIR. Daughelty worked as an er-
rand boy, gardener and clerk in a
grucery store, his parents being OF
limited means. Money was raised to
send him to the University of Mich
lgan, from which he was graduated II
1881. He was later graduated from
the Ohio State University Law School
and soon afterward was admitted to
the bar.
He Immediately took an active in
terest in politics political fights were
lawyer. In 1889, at the age of twenty
ne, he was elected to the Ohio Legis-
lature, serving one term in the As
sembly. Since that time he has never
held elective Office. In 1883 he was
a cand dste for nomination to Con
gress from the Fayette County district
and was defeated by three votes on the
250th ballot.
In 1892 Mr., Daugherty was exoner-
ated by Legislative committee IN ONO
of the implied charge made in a Co.
lumbus newspaper that he, as mem
Der of the Legislature, had been paid
to vote for John Sherman for United
States Senator.
In 1893 Mr.. Daugherty was chairman
OF the Republican State Central Com
mittee. In the contest between Sena-
tor Hanna and Robert C. McKisson in
that year charges of bribery were made
against some of the men in the Hanna
organization. A committee was ap-
pointed to investigate. Mr.. Daugherty
acted as attorney for one of the ac-
cused Hanna legislators In the fol-
lowing year Mr.. Daugherty became the
anti-t1anna candidate for the Repubii-
can nomination for Governor and was
defeated
Mr., Daugherty assisted in the or
ganization of the Columbus Savings
and Irust Company in 1901. This con
cern failed after eleven years of opera
ton: In 1908 he served as member
of the Taft steering committee at the
Republican National Convention. He
was active in obtaining a communication
of the sentence of Charles W. Morse,
who had been sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment in Atlanta for
making false entries in the books of
the Bank of North America.
Becomes Harding Lieutenant
In 1904 Mr.. Daugherty helped Presi-
dent-elect Harding become Lieutenant
Governor OF Ohio and promoted The
Harding campaign for the Senate. He
sought to prevail upon Mr.. Hardin g
to seek the Presidential nomination in
1916. Mr.. Daugherty remained steadily
in the company of the President-elect
during the post-election period of last
year.
The numerous large corporations
that the law firm of Daugherty & Todd
has represented III recent years include
the American Tobacco Company, Ar
mour e. Co., the American Gas and
Electric Company, the Western Union
Telegraph Company and the Ohio State
Telephone Company. R. W Walton, a
Columbus lawyer, recently made a pub
Tic charge before the legislative COM
mittee that Mr.. Daugherty had been
operating as a lobbyist in the Ohio
Legislature for Twenty-Five wears