Daniel MacArthur Gade (born February 7, 1975) is an American disability and veteran services activist, political candidate, professor, and researcher.

Gade was the Republican nominee for the 2020 election to represent Virginia in the United States Senate losing to incumbent Democrat Mark Warner.

[8] He has authored a couple of scholarly articles in that field, most notably in Health Economics and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

[14] In 2017, Gade was nominated to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,[13] but later withdrew from consideration citing the "toxic political climate in Washington.

[16][17] Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin nominated Gade to lead the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Veterans Services in January 2022.

[20] He faced adjunct professor and public school teacher Alissa Baldwin and defense contractor and retired Army intelligence officer Thomas Speciale in the Republican primary.

[25] President George W. Bush described cycling with Gade as "unbelievable",[26] since he "rode with one leg, navigating some really tough trails".