James Edward Dougherty (April 12, 1921 – August 15, 2005) was an American police officer, the first trainer of Special Weapons and Tactics.

He was the fifth and final child of Edward and Ethel Dougherty (née Beatty), natives of Pueblo, Colorado.

[1][better source needed] After moving to Globe, Arizona, the family suffered from the Great Depression, living in a tent.

[2] Dougherty attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California, where he became the popular, attractive football captain and class president.

[6] Around this time, Dougherty met 15-year-old Norma Jeane Baker (later known as Marilyn Monroe) at Van Nuys High School.

[7][8] Monroe was living with her foster parents, Dougherty's neighbors named Grace and Doc Goddard, as her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, had been committed to a sanatorium for paranoid schizophrenia in 1934.

[14] Though numerous reports claim that both parties were skeptical about marriage, especially Monroe,[8][12] Dougherty said "[We] loved each other madly.

"[15] Monroe also told Grace that being married to Dougherty, whom she fondly called "Daddy" or "Jimmie", felt wonderful.

[17] After honeymooning on a lake in Ventura County, California, they moved into a studio apartment in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

[18][19] In 1944, they moved to Santa Catalina Island, where Dougherty joined the Merchant Navy and taught sea safety.

[12][21] To help the war effort, she began working at the Radioplane Company that year, where she was noticed by photographer David Conover.

[22][23] She later signed a contract with the Blue Book Model agency and 20th Century Fox, who stipulated that she must be unmarried, as they did not want her to become pregnant.

[26] Though Monroe offered to continue the relationship as an unmarried couple, Dougherty was not open to this, and the two scarcely interacted with each other save during legal and personal proceedings.

On one occasion, Monroe allegedly called Dougherty, saying she was bored of Hollywood, missed him and wanted to resume their relationship.

He played a part in the creation of the Special Weapons and Tactics group, becoming the first officer to train it.

[30] In 1950, Dougherty was stationed at the premiere of one of Monroe's early films, The Asphalt Jungle, to help with crowd control.

[34] Together, they moved to Arizona and, in 1978, to her hometown in Sabattus, Maine, where he taught at the Criminal Justice Academy and worked as an Androscoggin County commissioner.

[38] In 1990, he told the United Press International, "I never knew Marilyn Monroe, and I don't claim to have any insights to her to this day.