Education
He attended Dickinson College, graduating in 1848.
He attended Dickinson College, graduating in 1848.
A lawyer, he was a noted prohibitionist, and was the vice presidential candidate and running mate of John Saint John on the Prohibition Party ticket of the United States presidential election, 1884. Daniel was born at Deal Island, Maryland in 1826. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar of his home state in 1851.
Upon election to the state legislature of Maryland in 1853, in 1857, he began promoting laws permitting the local option regarding the prohibition of alcohol.
Eventually, 13 of the 23 counties in Maryland opted for prohibition. William Daniel became president of the Maryland Temperance Alliance when it was formed in 1872.
He also served as chairman of the 1884 national convention of the Prohibition Party, which elected him to serve as its United States. Vice-Presidential candidate in the 1884 election. On October 13, 1897, William Daniel died at the age of 71, still in Office as a 2nd Term Trustee at Dickinson College in 1894-1897.