Harmon, Harley

found: NUCMC data from Nevada Historical Society for James G. Scrugham papers, 1915-1948(Harley Harmon; correspondent)

found: Guide to the Harmon Family Papers, 1910-1999, via WWW, viewed July 21, 2022(Harley A. Harmon, son of Elmer Harmon, born in 1882 in Weir City, Kansas; 1903, Harley A. Harmon unsuccessfully ran for Los Angeles City Clerk; 1905, Harley A. Harmon joined the Union Pacific Railroad as an engineer and drove one of the first construction trains to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Harmon was stationed in 1908; attended the Democratic State Convention and advocated for the establishment of Clark County in Las Vegas, which passed in the next session and became effective on July 1, 1909; became Clark County's first City Clerk; took his bar examination and passed in 1919; in 1921 elected District Attorney, which Harmon held until 1934, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor; after the election, the newly elected Democratic Governor Richard Kirman appointed Harmon the chairman of the State Public Service Commission; Harmon ran again for the gubernatorial nomination in 1938 and lost a second time; was a member of the Colorado River Commission which negotiated rights for the water and power emanating from the Colorado River and the Boulder Dam; married Leona McGovern in 1911 and had two children, Charles E. Harmon and Harley E. Harmon; died October 10, 1947) - http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1rk5p