The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-07

major in the Confederate Army.
Among the Senator's close personal
friends from Richmond, who were at
his bedside when the end came, was
Major James d. Patton.
John Warwick Daniel, United Sta ties
Senator from Virginia, and one of the
most prominent conservative Demo-
cratic leaders in the South, was born
Mt Lynchburg, Va, on September 5,
1912, the son of Judge William Daniel,
Jr-. and Sarah A. Warwick Daniel.
His paternal grandfather. William
Daniel, ST., was judge Of the Virginia
General Court and an ardent sup
porter of Jefferson and of the Revo-
luton of 1898. His father was judge
OF the Supreme Court of Appeals OF
Virginia and a prominent figure in
Virginia politics. He was an elector
for Van Buren, in 1910 and had the
reputation of being one of the finest
orators in his State. One of his
cousins was Peter Vivian Daniel, of
the United States Supreme Court; an
other was John Moncure Daniel, a
distinguished journalist in his time.
John Warwick Daniel was educated
at Lynchburg and later at DR.. Gessner
Harrison's University School. When
Virginia seeded from the Union
young Daniel left his studies and ac-
cepted a commission as second lieu
tenant in the Twenty-seventh Virginia
Stonewall Brigade. He fought in the
first battle of Manassas. on July 21,
1861; at Boonesboro, Md, September
IL, 1862; at Antietam, September 10
and II, 1862, and in the bloody battle
Of the Wilderness, May ST, 1864, in
which he held the rank of major and
was adjutant general of Jubal A.
Early's division. During that battle
a shell fragment broke and shattered
Daniels leg. He fell from his horse
1ad 70 !, l.
not been for the kindness of a pri-
vate, who stopped the flow of blood
by twisting the adjutant's scarf tight
1y around the latters leg.
This serious injury put a stop to
Daniels career as a soldier. He was
taken to Charlottesville, Va, where
he slowly recovered from his wounds
During his convalescence he studied
law, attending lectures at the Univer
sity of Virginia in 1865 and 1866. He
was admitted to the bar in 1865 and
began to practice with his father, who
had retired from the bench. For ten
years he was president OF the Bank
of Lynchburg and in 1863 he married
Miss Julia e. Munnell, of Lynchburg.
who bore him two sons and three
daughters.
Young Daniel took great interest in
politics and soon became a political
leader Of considerable influence. He
was elected a member of the Virginia
House of Delegates and served as such
from 1869 to 1872. From 1875 to
1881 he was a member of the Vir-
ginia Senate. He resigned after he
had been nominated for Governor in
1891, but was defeated at the sub
sequent election by w. r. Cameron.
the Readjuster candidate. In 1885
he was elected to Congress and during
his first month of service in the House
of Representative was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Sena-
tor Malone, whose term was to expire
March 3. 1887.
Senator Daniel developed considera-
BILE activity after he became a member
of the Senate. In the Forty-ninth Con-
gress he advocated the abolition of the
internal revenue system, urged free
coinage Of silver and supported retalia-
ton against Canada for curtailing the
rights of American fishermen. In the
winter of 1887 he opposed the force
bill, advocated tariff reform and was
one OF the strongest advocates OF the
free coinage of silver. He was re-
elected to the United States Senate in
1892 without party nomination. and also
in 1898, 1904 and 1910.
Senator Daniel was eIector-at-large
on the Tilden ticket in 1876 and was
member OF the Democratic National
OF 1880. 1855 and 1896. He
seconded the nomination OF General
Hancock at the Democratic National
OF 1880 and that OF Thur
man for the vice presidency at the