Burton Wheeler’s campaign against Harry Daugherty, waged in a small hearing room packed to overflowing. If Warren G. Harding’s administration is remembered much today, it is for its corruption.

THE dismissal of Harry Daugherty and the disheartening final correspondence between him and President Coolidge brings to an appropriately mean and equivocal end one of the most discreditable ...

Yet Burns never hesitated to use his power to protect the political interests of his superior, the politically connected attorney general, Harry Daugherty. The FBI is an agency within the ...

Wheeler, a Democrat, who was convinced that Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, a Republican, was abusing his role as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. In March 1924, Wheeler took ...

Yet it was just one small part of a complex web of bribery, intimidation and blackmail that surrounded Harding’s attorney general, Harry Daugherty. In “Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a ...

History. Onetime (Harding Cabinet) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (Harding Cabinet) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller are under indictment and undergoing trial ...