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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam McDANIEL
(1801-1866)
McDANIEL, William, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Grayson County, Ky., in 1801;
moved to Missouri in the late 1820s; member of the State senate in
1838 and 1840; served in the Missouri Volunteers during the
Seminole War; elected president of the bank in Palmyra, Marion
County, Mo., on December 9, 1840; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Sterling Price and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3,
1847; was operating an agency for the location of land claims at
Palmyra on June 10, 1847; moved to Solano County, Calif., and laid
out the town of Vacaville; moved to Humboldt County, Calif., and
established the land office at Humboldt Point in 1858; moved to the
Idaho Territory in 1863 where he practiced law and was associated
with the land office; died in Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, on
December 14, 1866.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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