Harry M. Daugherty Quotes
The convention will be dead-locked, and after the other candidates have gone their limit, some twelve or fifteen men, worn-out and bleary-eyed for lack of sleep, will sit down about two in the morning around a table in a smoke-filled room in some hotel and decide the nomination. When that time comes [Warren Gamaliel] Harding will be selected.
During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:
Harry M. Daughtery, 1860-1941, U. S. Attorney General (Republican), Assistant to President Harding, Presidential Campaign Manager, June 10, 1920
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Harry Micajah Daugherty was an American politician. A key Ohio Republican political insider, he is best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding's presidency.
