Elbert Clifton Daniel, Jr. (September 19, 1912 – February 21, 2000) was an American newspaperman who was the managing editor of The New York Times from 1964 to 1969.
Daniel was married to former United States President Harry S. Truman's daughter, Margaret on April 21, 1956, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri.
The couple resided in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Having heart disease, Clifton Daniel suffered a stroke and succumbed on February 21, 2000, at his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan, aged 87.
His 41-year-old son William Wallace Daniel followed his father in death a little over six months later on September 4, 2000, after being hit by a taxicab in Manhattan.