[2] In 1906 he set up his own practice in Ashland, Kansas, and in the same year became the Clark County attorney for one term.
[1][3] June 17, 1921, he was made Assistant Attorney General, he was the third member of his family to hold the position.
[4] Harvey stood for the supreme court in 1922 against the incumbent Judson S. West who had already served two terms.
[3] His had two brothers both Democrats, Alexander Miller Harvey was a Lieutenant Governor of Kansas and Louis S. Harvey a prominent Kansas lawyer who was thought to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
[11] He died of a heart attack on the way to hospital after collapsing in his home in Topeka, Kansas, on Saturday September 27, 1958.