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Milton John Daniels (April 18, 1838 – December 1, 1914) was an American Civil War veteran and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1903 to 1905.
Milton John Daniels | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 8th district | |
| In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Sylvester C. Smith |
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| Born | April 18, 1838 Cobleskill, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 1, 1914 (aged 76) Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
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| Military service | |
| Branch/service | Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank | Captain |
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Biography
editBorn in Cobleskill, New York, Daniels attended the public schools. His family moved to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and he worked with his father in the lumber business. He moved to Rochester, Minnesota, in 1856, and was appointed deputy postmaster of Rochester in 1859. In 1860 he entered Middlebury Academy, Wyoming County, New York.
During the Civil War he volunteered for service on April 23, 1861. Returning to Minnesota in August 1862, he raised a company and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company F, Ninth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteers. During the Indian War of 1862, he took command of the Third Minnesota Mounted Infantry. In 1863, he joined his company at St. Louis in 1863, and was commissioned captain. In March 1865 he was commissioned captain and commissary of subsistence by President Abraham Lincoln.
After the war he returned to Minnesota and engaged in banking, helping his father to organize the Union Savings Bank of Rochester, Minnesota. Later he served as member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives from 1882 to 1886 and in the Minnesota State Senate from 1886 to 1890. He also served as president of the Minnesota State Board of Asylums for the Insane from 1882 to 1888.
He moved to California in 1889 and located in Riverside where he engaged in horticultural pursuits.
Congress
editDaniels was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905).[1] He did not run for renomination to the Fifty-ninth Congress.
Later career and death
editHe resumed his occupation as horticulturist in Riverside until his death there on December 1, 1914. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
Electoral history
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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| Republican | Milton J. Daniels | 20,135 | 55.6% | ||
| Democratic | William E. Smythe | 15,819 | 40.8% | ||
| Socialist | Noble A. Richardson | 2,091 | 5.4% | ||
| Prohibition | Ellsworth Leonardson | 762 | 2.0% | ||
| Total votes | 38,807 | 100.0% | |||
| Republican win (new seat) | |||||
References
edit- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- United States Congress. "Milton J. Daniels (id: D000042)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Klotz, Esther H.; Hall, Joan H. (1985). Adobes, Bungalows, and Mansions of Riverside, California (1st ed.). Riverside, CA: Riverside Museum Press. p. 335. ISBN 0-935661-11-5.
External links
edit- "Milton John Daniels". US Congressman. Find a Grave. May 10, 2002. Retrieved Aug 19, 2011.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress