Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-07-07
JOHN WARWICK DANIEL.
Bret Sketch Of the Noted Yirginian Who
Died Last Week.

John Warwick Daniel, late United
States Senator from Virginia and one
the most prominent conservative Demo-
cratic leaders in the South. was born st
Lynchburg, Va, September 5. 1912. the
son of Judge William Daniel. jr., and
Sarah A. Warwick Daniel. His pater-
nal grandfather. William Daniel, sr.,
was judge of the Virginia General Court
and an ardent supporter of jefferson
and of the Revolution of 1898 His
father was judge of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia and 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; another was
John Moncure Daniel, a distinguished
journalist in his time.
John Warwick Daniel was educated
at Lynchburg and later at DR.. Gessner
Harrisson's University School When
Virginia seeded from the Union Young
Daniel left bis studies and accepted
commission as second lieutenant in the
Twenty Virginia Regiment,
which became part of the Stonewall
Brigade. He fought in the first battle
OF Manassas, on July 81, 1861; at BONES
boro, Md, September ID, 1862; at An
tletam, September 16 and II, 1862, and
IN the bloody battle of the Wildernerss.
May 81, 1864, in which he held the rank
OF major and was adjutant general of
Jubal A. Early's division. During the
battle a shell fragment broke and shat
tered Daniels leg. He fell from his
horse and would have bled to death had
1t not been for the kindness of a private
who stopped the flow of blood by twist
ing the adjutant's scarf tightly around
the latter's leg.
This serious injury put stop to Dan
lefs career as ii soldier. He was taken
to Charlottesville, Va, where he slowly
recovered from his wounds. During his
convalesence he studied law, attending
lectures at the University of Virginia
IN 1865 and 1866. He was admitted to
the bar IN 1866, and began to practice
with his father, who had retired from
the bench. For ten years he was presi-
dent of the Bank of Lynchburg, and in
1869 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 political lead
er of considerable influence He was
elected 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 Virginia senate. He
resigned after he had been nominated
for governor in 1881, but was defeated
at the subsequent election by William
h Cameron, the readjuster candidate.
In 1885 he was elected to congress, and
during his first month of service in the
house of representatives was elected to
the United States Senate to succeed
Senator William Malone, whose term
was to expire March 8, 1887
He was reelected to the Senate in
1892 without party nomination. and also
in 1898, 1904 and 1910 for full term of
six years.
Senator Daniel was elector-at-large
on the Tilden ticket in 1876 and was a
member of the Democratic national con-
vention of 1880, 1888, 1896 and 1908. He
seconded the nomination of Gen. Han
cock at the Democratic national con-
ventlon of 1880 and that of Thurman
for the Vice Presidency at the conven-
ton of 1888, and was permanent chair
man OF the convention of 1896. He was
noted for the force and high finish of
his oratory and was often called upon
to deliver addresses at important occa-
slons. He delivered the Grafton at the
unvelllng of the Gen. Lee monument at
Lexington, Va, in 1888; the address at
the dedication of the Washington Mon
ument in 1885 by invitation of Congress,
and was the principal orator at many
local celebrations in Virginia and other
Southern States.
He was Democrat, coming from
long line of Democratic Southern ances-
tors, and his convictions were thorough
~ IN harmony with Democratic princi-
pies, but the broadness of his mind tenn
pered his partisanship and made him
conservative. He was the author of
several law books of standard value and
was repeatedly honored for his learning
and meritorious activity as legislator.
The honorary degree of LII. D. was
conferred upon him by the Washington
and Lee University in 1883, and by the
University of Michigan in 1887. He
died at the Lynchburg Sanatorium on
Wednesday, June 20, in the sixth-eighth
year of his age, the idol, not of Virgin
la alone, but of the entire South.
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