| 词条 | William Daniel (Maryland politician) |
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|name = William Daniel |image = William Daniel 1884 2.png |birth_date = {{birth date|1826|1|24}} |birth_place = Deal Island, Maryland, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1897|10|13|1826|1|24}} |death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |party = Whig {{small|(Before 1854)}} Know Nothing {{small|(1854–1864)}} Republican {{small|(1864–1884)}} Prohibition {{small|(1884–1897)}} |education = Dickinson College {{small|(BA)}} }} William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897) was an American politician from the state of Maryland. A lawyer, he was a noted prohibitionist and abolitionist. He served in both houses of the Maryland state legislature, first as a Whig, and later as a member of the American Party. Later, as a Republican, he was a member of the convention that wrote Maryland's constitution in 1864. He helped found the Maryland Temperance Alliance in 1872 and served as its president for twelve years. Daniel was the vice presidential nominee and running mate of John St. John on the Prohibition Party ticket in the presidential election of 1884. Placing third in the election that year, he continued his involvement with the cause of temperance until his death in 1897. Early life and educationDaniel was born on Deal Island in Somerset County, Maryland on January 24, 1826, the son of Travers Daniel and his wife, Mary Wallace Daniel.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}}{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Travers Daniel arrived at Deal Island at the age of eighteen to teach school but soon turned to farming after marrying Mary Wallace.{{sfn|Eastern Shore 1898}} William Daniel and his siblings were raised on the farm and attended the local school.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} He attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1848.{{sfn|Dickinson 2005}} While in college, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he would remain affiliated with the church for the rest of his life.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} After finishing third in a class of twenty-eight, Daniel returned to Maryland to study law in the office of William S. Waters, a Somerset County lawyer who had recently served as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Daniel was admitted to the bar in 1851.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} State legislatorLike the rest of his family, Daniels was a member of the Whig Party, and soon became involved in local politics.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}}{{sfn|Eastern Shore 1898}} While maintaining his law practice, he was elected to a two-year term in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1853.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} While there he introduced a bill based on the Maine law, which would have prohibited the sale and production of alcoholic beverages in the state, but it did not pass.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} By this time, the Whig Party was falling apart over sectional issues, but Daniel was reelected in 1855 as a member of the American Party (also known as the "Know Nothings").{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} The Know Nothings' main political issue was nativism, but Daniels remained focused more on prohibition. In 1857, he promoted a law permitting the local option, which would let individual counties in the state chose whether to enact prohibition of alcohol within their borders, but it did not pass.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} That year he was elected to a four-year term in the Maryland Senate.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} He resigned part-way through his term, in 1858, to practice law in Baltimore.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Two years later, he married Ellen Young Guiteau, daughter of a Congregational minister. By 1864, Daniel had joined the Republican Party.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} That year, he was a delegate to the state's constitutional convention, which produced the Maryland Constitution of 1864.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Despite growing up in a slaveholding area, Daniel was an abolitionist and joined with the majority at the convention in voting to outlaw slavery and disenfranchise those who had fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} In 1866, Daniel argued in court that state laws enforcing racial distinctions were no longer valid after the passage of the recent federal Civil Rights Act.{{sfn|Fuke|1999|p=80}} The court ruled in his favor, holding that the law could not treat black and white apprentices differently.{{sfn|Fuke|1999|p=80}} Later that year, Daniel ran unsuccessfully for a judgeship on the state equity court.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Prohibition advocateAfter the war, Daniel continued in his private law practice while remaining active in the anti-alcohol cause. He was elected president of the Maryland Temperance Alliance when it was formed in 1872.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} He was re-elected to that position annually for the next twelve years.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} During that time, the local option law Daniel favored while in the legislature became law; thirteen of the state's twenty-three counties (including Somerset) adopted prohibition under the statute.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} Throughout his leadership of the Maryland Temperance Alliance, Daniel remained a member of the Republican Party, but in 1884 he left to join the small Prohibition Party. Like Daniel, most party members came from pietist churches, and most were former Republicans.{{sfn|Kleppner|1979|pp=252–255}} Elected as the head of the Maryland branch of the party, he attended the 1884 Prohibition Party National Convention in Pittsburgh.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} After being selected as temporary chairman of the convention, the delegates chose Daniel to be nominated for vice president alongside the presidential nominee, John St. John.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} The party platform was silent on most issues of the day, focusing instead on the alcohol problem.{{sfn|American Reformer 1884}} In the election that year, the Prohibition ticket fell far short of victory, as expected, but placed third with 1.5 percent of the vote—a marked improvement over the 0.1 percent the 1880 Prohibition candidates had received. Further, their vote total in New York—just over 25,000—was more than enough to throw the election in that state from James G. Blaine, the Republican, to Grover Cleveland, the Democrat. Because pro-temperance voters usually voted Republican, many historians credit St. John and Daniel with costing Blaine the election.{{sfn|Pocock|1973|pp=185–190}}{{sfn|Frederikson|1935|p=304}} After the campaign, Daniel continued his temperance activism, remaining head of the state party until 1888.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} He organized the Prohibition Camp Meeting association in 1889, which later purchased land in Glyndon, Maryland for their meetings.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} He also kept up his law practice, training many law students in his office, including Orlando Franklin Bump, who also serve as Daniel's law partner for several years.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} He also served as a trustee of Dickinson College, his alma mater, and in other charitable and religious activities, including the Young Men's Christian Association.{{sfn|Cyclopaedia 1897}} On October 13, 1897, he died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Mount Washington, Baltimore, survived by his wife and their adopted son, Clarence Adreon.{{sfn|Sun 1897a}} He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.{{sfn|Sun 1897b}} ReferencesSources{{refbegin}}
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