Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , died at his home in Richmond, Virginia. A Democrat appointed by Andrew Jackson, Daniel had been for nineteen years a defender of states' rights, limited government, and slavery. The Senate rejected James Buchanan's choice, Jeremiah Black of Pennsylvania, and Daniel's seat was not filled until July 1862 when Abraham Lincoln nominated Samuel F. Miller of Iowa. (By John Osborne)
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Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History, Vol. III (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922), 80.
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