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...nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances had permitted him to remain in Clarksburg, the way John...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...
West Virginia--Guv Despard Goff. LL.B...
Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, the first witness called in defense of Mr. Daugherty, came from a sickbed to offer testimony similar to that of Mr. Williams. Senator Goff, Assistant to Attorney General Daugherty during the Harding administration, testified that Harry Daugherty not only had never been consulted on the claim, but had never offered any suggestions or even discussed the subject until 1922 when President Harding requested an "answer" to the current criticism of the transfer...