Charles J. Doherty Papers, 1917-1972

This series contains a short biography, clippings, and other documents providing biographical information on Charles Doherty and his family.

This series contains Charles Doherty's correspondence files. These materials primarily concern operation of the Winnett Times and the Missoula County Times; however, some personal correspondence is also present. Among the frequent and prominent correspondents found in this series are Forrest Anderson, J. Hugo Aronson, Roy Ayers, John W. Bonner, W. E. Borah, H. H. H. Clark, Hall F. Clement, Delmar Cole, Frank Cooney, Jack and Robert Corette, Ed Craney, Joseph Dixon, Zales Ecton, H. H. Ellsworth, John Evans, James A. Farley, James Ford, Tom L. Gibson, Dorothy Johnson, Arthur Lamey, Scott Leavitt, Joseph McCarthy, Charles and Walter McLeod, Mike Mansfield, Lee Metcalf, James Murray, Gerald Nye, James O'Connor, Arnold Olsen, Wright Patman, Wellington Rankin, Miles Romney, Arthur Stone, Adrian VanKeulen, Thomas Walsh, Alexander Warden, Burton Wheeler, and numerous staff members at the National Recovery Administration in Washington, D.C.

This series contains newspaper clippings collected by Charles Doherty over the course his professional career, reflecting his personal interests and editorial topics. These materials were extracted from papers other than the Missoula County Times and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

This series contains financial records, primarily regarding operation of the Winnett and Missoula Times but also includes some personal records. This series provides insights into the operation of rural Montana weekly newspapers.

This series contains a mixture of personal and business legal documents. This series includes a sequence documenting an extended dispute between the Times and the Missoulian regarding lucrative Missoula City/County "newspaper of record" publication contracts. Additionally, this series contains an unsigned copy of the Missoula County Peoples Exchange articles of incorporation, a Depression era civic group intended to facilitate "self-relief" through bartering, work exchanges, and community projects.

This series contains market and research reports collected by Charles Doherty.

This series contains Charles Doherty's speeches, radio speeches, and some of his editorial writings as well as some materials written by other authors.

This series contains eleven photographs and postcards taken or collected by Charles Doherty during his lifetime. Seven of the nine images were taken during the 1927 American Legion Convention in Paris, France and Doherty's travels to Ireland following the convention.

This series consists of Clara Doherty's personal correspondence and some financial records that appear to be from a Catholic women's organization.

The Petroleum County Realty Company was a real estate brokerage located in Winnnett, Montana. Doherty was the treasurer of the organization.

Doherty was the commander of the Missoula Barracks (or unit) of the Veterans of World War I, and was involved in its organization. The materials document eligible area veterans and actual membership.

The records are mostly related to American Legion Hell Gate Post #27 in Missoula, Montana, of which Doherty was the commander. Also of particular note are records from Doherty's participation in the 1927 American Legion convention in Paris, billed as the Second American Expeditionary Force and portraying Legionnaires as the champions of western democracy.