Doherty resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1926 in order to campaign in support of the federal Conservatives led by Arthur Meighen."M.W. Doherty is dead at 62", Globe and Mail, September 27, 1938 He considered running as a federal Conservative candidate against former Liberal Labour minister John Campbell Elliott in Middlesex West win the 1926 federal election but, in the end, did not run.
