1. Price Daniel 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.
24 Facts About Price Daniel
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Marion Price Daniel Sr was born October 10,1910, in Dayton, Texas, to Marion Price Daniel Sr and Nannie Blanch Partlow, in Liberty Texas.
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Sister Ellen Virginia Price Daniel was born in 1912, and brother William Partlow Price Daniel in 1915.
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Price Daniel put himself through law school at Baylor University by working as a janitor and dishwasher and by working at the Waco News Tribune.
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Price Daniel was re-elected twice, serving in the 46th, 47th, and 48th legislature from January 10,1939, until January 9,1945.
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Price Daniel served on these committees during the 46th legislature : judiciary; oil, gas, and mining; privileges, suffrage, and elections ; and public lands and buildings.
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Price Daniel served on these committees during the 47th legislature : judiciary; privileges, suffrage, and elections; public lands and buildings ; and revenue and taxation.
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Price Daniel was elected as Speaker of the House for the 48th legislature.
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Price Daniel 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.
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Price Daniel received "outstanding authority" citations from both branches of service, and was discharged in May 1946.
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Price Daniel returned to Texas after his military service and won the seat of Texas Attorney General.
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In 1952, Price Daniel was elected to the United States Senate.
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Price Daniel 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.
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Price 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.
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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.
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In 1953, then Senator Price Daniel was one of 35 co-sponsors to the Florida Senator Spessard Holland-authored Senate Joint Resolution 13 restoring the right of the submerged lands to the coastal states.
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In 1960, Price Daniel won renomination over Jack Cox, an oil equipment executive from Houston.
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In 1961, the legislature passed a 2-cent sales tax, which Price Daniel allowed to become law without his signature so the state would remain solvent.
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Price Daniel lost the Democratic nomination to former Navy Secretary John B Connally Jr.
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Price Daniel was re-elected twice in 1972 and 1978, and retired at the end of his second term.
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Price Daniel II married the former Jean Houston Baldwin on June 28,1940.
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Governor Price Daniel died of a stroke on August 25,1988, and is interred at the family ranch in Liberty County.
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Price Daniel's wife died December 14,2002, and is buried with him.
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Governor and Mrs Price Daniel began construction on the Greek Revival style 7,318-square-foot Liberty, Texas house in 1982, with an official opening in 1984.