Jonathan Daniels AKA Jonathan Worth Daniels Born: 26-Apr-1902 Birthplace: Raleigh, NC Died: 6-Nov-1981 Location of death: Hilton Head Island, SC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Six Oaks Cemetery, Hilton Head Island, SC
Gender: Male Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Government Nationality: United States Executive summary: FDR and Truman's press secretary Father: Josephus Daniels (Ambassador, Secretary of the Navy, b. 1862, d. 1948) Mother: Addie Worth Bagley Wife: Elizabeth Bridgers (m. 5-Sep-1923, d. Dec-1929, 1 daughter) Wife: Lucy Billing Cathcart (m. 30-Apr-1932, d. Jan-1979, 3 daughters) Daughter: Elizabeth (by Elizabeth) Daughter: Lucy (by Lucy) Daughter: Adelaide Daniels Key (by Lucy) Daughter: Mary Cleves (by Lucy)
High School: St. Albans School, Washington, DC (1918) University: BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1921) University: MA English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922) Law School: Columbia University (flunked out)
White House Press Secretary 1945 The Nation Columnist (1940-42) Fortune (1930-32) Guggenheim Fellowship (1930-31) National Press Club Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Author of books:
Clash of Angels (1930, novel) A Southerner Discovers the South (1938) A Southerner Discovers New England (1940) Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina (1941) Frontier on the Potomac (1946) The Man of Independence (1950) The End of Innocence (1954) The Forest is the Future (1957) Prince of Carpetbaggers (1958) Mosby: Gray Ghost of the Confederacy (1959) Stonewall Jackson (1959) October Recollections (1960) Robert E. Lee (1960) Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace (1962) They Will Be Heard: America's Crusading Newspaper Editors (1965) Time Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor (1966) Washington Quadrille: The Dance beside the Documents (1968) Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr (1970) The Randolphs of Virginia (1972) The Gentlemanly Serpent and Other Columns from a Newspaperman in Paradise: From the Pages of the Hilton Head Island Packet, 1970-73 (1974) White House Witness 1942-1945 (1975)
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