John Reeves Jones Daniel

John Reeves Jones Daniel (January 13, 1802 – June 22, 1868) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.

Daniel was born near Halifax, North Carolina and was instructed privately at home. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1821. After studying law, he was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1823 and practiced law in Halifax. He was elected to the State house of commons, serving from 1832–34. Daniel was elected attorney general of North Carolina in 1834. The popular politician was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1853), where he served as Chairman of the Committee on Claims (Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses). Daniel was not a candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress. He retired from politics and resumed the practice of law in Halifax. He moved to Louisiana in 1860 and settled near Shreveport, where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in planting. He died in Shreveport and was buried there.

His son, Junius Daniel, became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, dying as a result of a mortal wound at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864.

See also
  • Twenty-seventh United States Congress
  • Twenty-ninth United States Congress
  • Twenty-eighth United States Congress
  • Thirtieth United States Congress
  • Thirty-second United States Congress
  • Thirty-first United States Congress
Legal offices
Preceded by
Romulus Mitchell Saunders		 Attorney General of North Carolina
1835–1841		 Succeeded by
Hugh McQueen
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Jesse A. Bynum		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
1841–1843		 Succeeded by
Daniel M. Barringer
Preceded by
Edmund Deberry		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 7th congressional district
1843–1847		 Succeeded by
James I. McKay
Preceded by
James I. McKay		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 6th congressional district
1847–1853		 Succeeded by
Richard C. Puryear


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