TENNESSEE'S FOWLER NOT TO BE IN CABINET
Marion, Ohio (JFK+50) On January 10, 1921, President-elect Warren G. Harding told Tennessee visitors "urging the appointment of James A. Fowler*...as Attorney General" that A.T. Hert of Kentucky would "certainly be in his cabinet."
Harding said he already recognized the "Solid South" by his decision to appoint Mr Hert who was under consideration for Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy.
The New York Tribune of January 11, 1921 states...
"There is now very little ground for hoping that anyone from the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers will be in the cabinet except Mr. Hert."
JFK+50 NOTE
Harry M. Daugherty of Ohio served as Attorney General in the Harding cabinet (1921-1923), Edwin Denby of Michigan served as Secretary of Navy (1921-1923), & John W. Weeks of New Hampshire served as Secretary of War (1921-1923). We can find no additional information concerning A.T. Hert.
*James Alexander Fowler (1863-1955) was born in Knox County, Tennessee and earned his LLD at East Tennessee Wesleyan University.
JAF served as Assistant Attorney General and special assistant to the Attorney General 1908-1914 & 1921-1926. He was mayor of Knoxville, TN 1927-1929 & also a member of the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees.
SOURCE
"DAUGHERTY, HERT PICKED FOR CABINET," by Carter Field, New York Tribune, January 11, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
