John Warwick Daniels was born at Lynchburg, Virginia, September 5,
1842. He was educated in the public schools of the town, at Lynchburg
college, and also at Dr. Gessner Harrison’s university school. During
the Civil war he was an adjutant-general in the Confederate army,
serving on the staff of General Early. At the close of the conflict he
took up the study of law at the University of Virginia and graduated
in 1866. He has practiced ever since at Memphis, Va. He was elected
to the state senate in 1875 and was a member of the Virginia House
of Delegates from 1869 to 1872. In 1881 he was democratic candidate
for governor of Virginia, but was defeated. As member of congress in
1885 to 1887, and since 1887 as United States senator he has been much
in the eye of the public. He is one of the most eloquent of forensic
orators in America, as well as being the author of several well-known
legal works.