D-Cady Herrick (April 12, 1846 – February 21, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician.
He was baptized Cady Herrick, but his father thought it better to add an initial hyphened "D-" to the name to avoid class-room jokes, like calling the boy "Katie." Thus the initial did not stand for any given name, and the first name should be pronounced "Dee-CAY-dee." The press took a long time to get aware of the rather elaborate construction of the name, and printed mostly D. Cady Herrick, the initial with a period, which led to the general belief that the initial stood indeed for an abbreviated first name. Many people thought it was "Daniel," after Daniel Cady, and the New York Times printed in 1904 "Donald" Cady Herrick as the Democratic nominee for governor. He was not the first New York politician to use an extra "D" which did not stand for any name, Daniel D. Tompkins added the middle initial to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins while studying at Columbia College.
He born on April 12, 1846, in Esperance, Schoharie County, New York, the son of Assemblyman Jonathan R. Herrick (1818–1890) and his first wife Harriet E. (Deuel) Herrick (1825–1856). In 1852, the family removed to Albany, New York.
He graduated from the Albany Classical Institute, and then studied law in the office of Lyman Tremain and Rufus W. Peckham, Sr.. They sent him to Albany Law School where he was a classmate of William McKinley. He graduated in 1868, and was admitted to the bar. In 1874, he married Orissa H. Salisbury (d. 1925), and they had three children.
In 1877, Herrick was defeated for District Attorney of Albany County, but in 1880 was re-nominated and elected, and he was re-elected in 1883. He became the chief lieutenant of Daniel Manning, the Democratic boss of Albany. When Manning moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1885, Herrick became the Democratic boss of Albany and continued in this role even after becoming a judge on the New York Supreme Court.