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Senate Years of Service: 1887-1910 Party: Democrat
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DANIEL, John Warwick, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Lynchburg,
Va., September 5, 1842; attended private schools, Lynchburg College, and Dr.
Gessner Harrisons University School; during the Civil War served in the
Confederate Army 1861-1864, attaining the rank of major; permanently disabled
in the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864; studied law at the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville; admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice
at Lynchburg, Va.; member, State house of delegates 1869-1872; member, State
senate 1875-1881; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1881; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); did not
seek renomination in 1886, having been elected Senator; elected in 1885 as a
Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1891, 1897, 1904, and 1910,
and served from March 4, 1887, until his death on June 29, 1910; died before
his credentials for the last election could be presented; chairman, Committee
on Revision of the Laws of the United States (Fifty-third Congress), Committee
on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Fifty-fifth Congress),
Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Sixtieth Congress),
Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-first Congress); died in Lynchburg,
Va.; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Daniel, Edward M.,
comp. Speeches and Orations of John Warwick Daniel. Lynchburg,
VA: J.P. Bell Co., 1911; Doss, Richard. John Warwick Daniel: A Study in the
Virginia Democracy. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1955.
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