Dan Daniel (politician)

Wilbur Clarence "Dan" Daniel (May 12, 1914 – January 23, 1988) was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, serving ten terms from 1969 until his death from a heart attack in Charlottesville in 1988.

Danville, on the Dan River, was at the time a center for the tobacco and textile industries.

He advanced through the ranks of the textile business to become assistant to the chairman of the board at Dan River Mills.

He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1959 to 1968, was President of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce in 1968, and was a permanent member of the President's People-to-People Committee (now People to People International).

[1] He died at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, on January 23, 1988, from an aortic dissection.