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- Rawleigh studied law with his uncle, Judge Peter Vivian Daniel as well as with John Lewis of Spottsylvania Co., VA.. After gaining admission to the bar was appointed Commonwealth's Attorney for Henrico county, holding the office until 1852. He was chairman of the state committee of the Whig party in Virginia and was elected a delegate from Richmond to the state legislature in 1842. In 1847 he was elected by the Democratic assembly as one of the three members of the governor's council, thus becoming Lieutenant Governor of the Virginia. He was a Union man until Virginia seceded, when he gave the state his cooperation. In 1865 he was made City Attorney for Richmond, but was removed by General Schofield. In 1872 he was elected Attorney-General of Virginia, and was re-elected Aug. 11, 1877, a few days before his death inRichmond, Va., Aug. 16, 1877.
It is reported that he and Susan had at least four children.
Title: Virginia State Records
Source Medium: Civil Registry
Page: Virginia Genealogies, Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Baltimore - 1992, p. 308, 313
Raleigh Travers Daniel
Augusta T. Daniel
Charlotte Daniel
Elizabeth Randolph Daniel b: ABT 1840
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