Daniel Cruger (December 22, 1780 – July 12, 1843)[1] was an American newspaper publisher, lawyer and politician who served as a United States representative from New York.

Daniel Cruger was born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, on December 22, 1780.

His second wife, Lydia Boggs Shepherd, was the wealthy widow of Moses Sheperd, a relation of the prominent Virginia Duke Family, who was a man contractor of the National Road.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and commenced practice in Bath, New York.

Daniel Cruger is buried at the Stone Church Cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia.