Daugherty
Daugherty names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Daugherty HARRY M., an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARRY M., an American public official, born at Washington Court House, Ohio, in 1860. He attended public schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. For a short time he was engaged in newspaper work. His chief interest, however, was in politics, and he soon became prominent in the political circles of Ohio. He served in the Ohio State Legislature for several terms. He was a warm friend of Warren G. Harding, and became the latter's campaign manager and adviser in many of the campaigns in which he was engaged, including the pre-convention campaign and the campaign for election in 1920. He was appointed Attorney General by President Harding and assumed office on March 4, 1921. DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLU- TION, a patriotic society of women in the United States, organized in 1891. Eligibility to membership is restricted to "women who are lineal descendants of an ancestor who was a military or naval or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual service under the authority of any of the 13 Colonies or States, or of the Continental Congress, and remained always loyal to such authority, or descendants of one who signed the Declaration of Independence, or of one who as a member of the Continental Congress or of the Congress of any of the Colonies or States, or as an official appointed by or under the authority of any such representative bodies, actually asesentative sisted in the establishment of American independence by service rendered during the War of the Revolution, becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason against the government of Great Britain, but remaining always loyal to the authority of the Colonies or States." There are numerous subordinate State organizations.
Daugherty HARRY M., during 1922 was made the object of
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARRY M., during 1922 was made the object of bitter assaults in the House of Representatives, leading to a movement for his impeachment, but the charges against him were dismissed by the House Jan. 25, 1923.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Harry M. Daugherty at his height, newly sworn in as Attorney General on March 4, 1921, and its supplement notes only that the House dismissed impeachment charges against him on January 25, 1923. What followed was ruin: with the Teapot Dome and Justice Department scandals unravelling after Harding's death, President Coolidge forced Daugherty's resignation in March 1924, largely because he refused to open department files. He was twice tried for conspiracy to defraud the government in the American Metal Company case, escaping with a mistrial in 1926 and a hung jury in 1927, and never took the stand in his own defence. He died in 1941, remembered chiefly as the ringleader of Harding's "Ohio Gang" — the reputation he tried to answer in his 1932 memoir, The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy.
Written for this edition, 2026.