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Price Daniel (Marion Price Daniel) was born on 10 October, 1910 in Dayton, Texas, U.S., is an American judge and politician (1910–1988). Discover Price Daniel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Marion Price Daniel
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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 10 October 1910
Birthday 10 October
Birthplace Dayton, Texas, U.S.
Date of death 25 August, 1988
Died Place Liberty, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1910

Marion Price Daniel Sr. (October 10, 1910 – August 25, 1988), was an American jurist and politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Senator and the 38th governor of Texas.

He was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to be a member of the National Security Council, Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and Assistant to the President for Federal-State Relations.

Daniel also served as Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

Marion Price Daniel Sr (properly Marion Price Daniel II) was born October 10, 1910, in Dayton, Texas, to Marion Price Daniel Sr (1882–1937) and Nannie Blanch Partlow (1886 –1955), in Liberty Texas.

He was the eldest child.

1912

Sister Ellen Virginia Daniel was born in 1912, and brother William Partlow Daniel in 1915.

Price, as he was commonly known, was married to Jean Houston Baldwin, great-great-granddaughter of legendary Texas figure Sam Houston.

As a teenager Daniel was a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

He put himself through law school at Baylor University by working as a janitor and dishwasher and by working at the Waco News Tribune.

1932

He received his degree from Baylor in 1932.

After graduation he established his own practice in Liberty County and often accepted livestock and acreage for his fees.

1938

In 1938, he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives.

1939

He was subsequently re-elected twice, serving in the 46th, 47th, and 48th legislature from January 10, 1939, until January 9, 1945.

Daniel opposed Texas adopting a sales tax.

He served on these committees during the 46th legislature (January 10 – June 21, 1939): judiciary; oil, gas, and mining; privileges, suffrage, and elections (vice chair); and public lands and buildings.

1941

He served on these committees during the 47th legislature (January 14 – July 3, 1941, and September 9–19, 1941): judiciary; privileges, suffrage, and elections; public lands and buildings (vice chair); and revenue and taxation.

1943

He was elected as Speaker of the House for the 48th legislature (January 12 – May 11, 1943).

When the legislature adjourned in May 1943, Daniel waived his draft exemption and enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the Security Intelligence Corps.

In this capacity, he saw service in Amarillo, Texas, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1944

He received his Second Lieutenant commission in 1944 after training at the Judge Advocate General Officers School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, afterwards becoming an instructor at the Army School for Personnel Services in Lexington, Virginia.

1945

The Army shared Daniel with the United States Marine Corps in 1945, the latter sending him to Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan to set up a Marine Personnel School.

1946

He received "outstanding authority" citations from both branches of service, and was discharged in May 1946.

Price returned to Texas after his military service and won the seat of Texas Attorney General.

As Texas State Attorney General, he argued the 1946 submerged lands ownership lawsuit United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19 before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, on behalf of the coastal states.

Herman Marion Sweatt, a black student, was denied admission to the University of Texas Law School in February 1946.

Sweatt had met all the requirements, except that Texas schools were segregated by law.

1947

The Supreme Court decided against California on June 23, 1947.

1950

Daniel defended the University of Texas law school in the 1950 Sweatt v. Painter desegregation case.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in June, 1950, Sweatt must be allowed admission.

1952

In 1952, Daniel was elected to the United States Senate.

He was immediately taken under the wing of Senate Minority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, with the senior senator helping to alleviate office space shortage by allowing Daniel's staff to work out of LBJ's office.

Daniel held positions on committees of the Interior; Interstate and Foreign Commerce; Post Office and Civil Service; and Judiciary, as well as Judiciary subcommittees on Internal Security and Juvenile Delinquency.

The new senator worked on a narcotics probe and reforming the electoral college.

Texas viewed this issue as of primary importance during the 1952 campaign.

Eisenhower supported state ownership, while Adlai Stevenson stood in opposition.

The state of Texas, including many prominent state Democratic party leaders, went with Eisenhower who won the state of Texas in the election.

1956

Opposed to desegregation efforts, Senator Price Daniel joined 19 other senators and 77 members of the United States House of Representatives in signing the 1956 Southern Manifesto, which condemned the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and encouraged states to resist implementing it.

1958

The Supreme Court's 1958 Cooper v. Aaron decision held that the states were bound to uphold the previous decision on desegregation.

The most long-lasting accomplishment of Price Daniel was in helping to retain Texas title to the submerged lands, and mineral rights therein, off the coast.

The victory has netted billions of dollars for Texas schools.