Background
Freeholder Daly was born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
Freeholder Daly was born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
He studied law at Saint John"s College in Brooklyn, New York and insurance at New York University. He received a Master"s Degree in Political Science from Columbia University in 1949, and studied International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law.
He was a 1930 graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In 1961 he was awarded the title of Professor Extraordinary from the Pontifical University of Colombia. In 1962, Daly was awarded honorary degrees from Monmouth College and Saint Peter"s College as a Doctor of Letters and a Doctor of Laws, respectively.
He was re-elected to the board of trustees of Monmouth College in 1968.
He had served as a trustee since 1962. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory by Pope John XXIII. On January 2, 1963, Marcus Daly, a Lincroft resident, was appointed to the unexpired term of Freeholder Earl L. Woolley, who had resigned due to poor health.
In 1964, he made an unsuccessful bid for the seat of retiring Republican James C. Auchincloss against James J. Howard, the Democratic candidate.
Auchincloss endorsed Daly to fill his seat after announcing in January 1964 that he would not be running for re-election.
In 1968, Daly announced his candidacy for the congressional seat against Republican Howard; he was forced to withdraw because of ill health in favor of State Senator Richard R. Stout, who was defeated. He was the center of a controversy in 1966 involving his proposal dealing with welfare aid to unwed mothers whereby their names would be referred to the County Prosecutor to be charged with adultery and fornication.
On November 15, 1966 he appeared as a guest on the David Susskind Show.
Diagnosed with cancer in 1968, Daly died on July 25, 1968.
He had been on the faculty of Fordham University and was a professor of political science at Saint Peter"s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was a former member of the board of governors of Riverview Hospital, Red Bank.
Daly was a member of the American International Law Association, the Catholic Association for International Peace, the American Committee for Italian Migration and the Holy Name Society. Daly chaired the freeholders" committee on public welfare and a member of the Monmouth County Welfare Board.