Daniel, Peter Vivian

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Peter Vivian Daniel
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    5
    Family
    Travers Daniel (father), Frances Moncure (mother), Lucy Randolph (first wife), Elizabeth Harris (second wife), Elizabeth Daniel (daughter)
    Education
    Princeton (College of New Jersey)
    Occupation
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Jeffersonian Republican
    Whig
    Government
    Supreme Court
    Federal Court
    State legislature
    Other state government

    Peter Vivian Daniel (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Daniel brought to the court a devotion to simple Jeffersonian agrarianism and an inveterate hatred of banks and corporations in general. Passionately committed to states' rights, state sovereignty, and limited government, he envisioned himself as a crusader against rising national power and economic consolidation and a defender of slavery. In a rapidly changing economic and social world, Daniel was doomed to fight a rearguard action against American progress and the irrepressible legal and constitutional developments that came with it. By the end of his eighteen years on the court, his voice was heard often in dissent.
    E. Lee Shepard, "Daniel, Peter Vivian," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00210.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Daniel, Peter Vivian," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5530.