William McDaniel was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

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Missouri

Born in Grayson County, Kentucky

Grayson County, Kentucky

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, McDaniel moved to Missouri in the late 1820s. He served as member of the State senate in 1838 and 1840. He served in the Missouri Volunteers during the Seminole War. McDaniel was elected president of the bank in Palmyra, Missouri

Palmyra, Missouri

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, on December 9, 1840. McDaniel was elected as a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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 to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sterling Price

Sterling Price

Sterling Price was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil...

 and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847. He was operating an agency for the location of land claims at Palmyra on June 10, 1847.

California

He moved to Solano County, California

Solano County, California

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, and laid out the town of Vacaville

Vacaville, California

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. He moved to Humboldt County, California

Humboldt County, California

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, and established the land office at Humboldt Point in 1858.

Idaho

He moved to the Idaho Territory in 1863 where he practiced law and was associated with the land office. He died in Lewiston, Idaho

Lewiston, Idaho

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, on December 14, 1866.