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PETER V. DANIEL
was born in Stafford County, Virginia on April 24, 1784.
He was educated by tutors and attended the College of
New Jersey (now Princeton University) for one year, from
1802 to 1803. Daniel then returned to Virginia and read
law in Richmond under Edmund Randolph, who had been Secretary
of State and Attorney General under President George Washington.
Daniel was admitted to the bar in 1808 and established
a law practice. The following year, he was elected to
the Virginia State Legislature. In 1812, he became a member
of the Virginia Privy Council, an executive advisory and
review body. In 1818, he was elected Lieutenant Governor
of Virginia, retaining his Council seat. He occupied both
of these positions for the next seventeen years. President
Andrew Jackson appointed Daniel to the United States District
Court for Eastern Virginia in 1836. President Martin Van
Buren nominated Daniel to the Supreme Court of the United
States on February 26, 1841. The Senate confirmed the
appointment on March 2, 1841. Daniel served on the Supreme
Court for eighteen years. He died on May 31, 1860, at
the age of seventy-six. |
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