Robert Daniel senior
Robert Williams Daniel (born September 11, 1884 in Richmond , Virginia , † December 20, 1940 ibid) was an American Democratic politician and banker who was a member of the Virginia Senate from 1936 to 1940 .
background
Daniel was born in 1884 to James Robertson Vivian Daniel and his wife Hallie Wise Williams. A descendant of the settler and founding father Edmund Randolph , he was related to many prominent American families. His great grandfather was Peter Vivian Daniel . His brothers were Channing Williams Daniel and James Robertson Vivian Daniel, Jr.
Career
Daniel served in the United States Army during World War I and received a major in the military . In 1903 he graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and then began a career as a banker and manager. He initially worked as a transport manager for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad . He then became head of the Maryland Life Insurance Company. In 1906 he founded the insurance agency Daniel and Stearns with his colleague Charles Palmer Stearns.
From 1911 Daniel worked mainly as a banker. For example, he became President of Liberty National Bank in New York and Chairman of the Richmond Trust Company. He served in the Virginia Senate from 1936 until his death in December 1940 .
RMS Titanic
On April 10, 1912 Daniel went in Southampton as a first class passenger on board the new British luxury liner RMS Titanic , which was supposed to arrive in New York a week later. The circumstances surrounding his rescue are controversial. Newspaper reports said he had been in the water for some time before a lifeboat picked him up. This is unlikely as only a handful of people were rescued from the water after the ship went down. His name wasn't among them. The official Encyclopedia Titanica website states that Daniel escaped in Lifeboat No. 3, one of the earliest lifeboats. There were also Thomas Cardeza , the publisher Henry Harper and the wife and daughter of Charles M. Hays .
After Daniel and the other survivors of the disaster had been taken aboard the passenger ship RMS Carpathia on the morning of April 15, 1912 , he made the acquaintance of Eloise Hughes Smith, an 18-year-old pregnant woman who was with the Downfall had lost her husband. They married two years later.
family
Daniel was married three times. In any case, it was a wealthy young widow . On August 18, 1914, he married Mrs. Lucian Philip Smith (nee Mary Eloise Hughes ) (1893-1940), daughter of the politician James A. Hughes . She brought a son from her first marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1923 . On December 1, 1923, he married Mrs. Edwin Rutheven Campbell (nee Margery Pitt Durant ) (1887–1969), daughter of the automobile manufacturer William Durant . The daughter Margery Randolph Daniel (1924-2013) was born from the marriage. The couple bought and lived in the Lower Brandon Plantation in Burrowsville , Virginia. The marriage ended in divorce in September 1928.
On October 11, 1929, he married Mrs. Frank Palmer Christian (nee Charlotte Randolph Bemiss ) (1890-1968), niece of John Skelton Williams , first president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad . The son Robert Daniel, born in 1936, came from this marriage .
Robert Williams Daniel died of cirrhosis of the liver on December 20, 1940 at the age of 56 and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in his hometown of Richmond. Mount Daniel , a mountain in Antarctica , is named in his honor .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daniel, Robert senior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daniel, Robert Williams |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond , Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1940 |
| Place of death | Richmond , Virginia |