Daniel Haymond Polsley (November 28, 1803 – October 14, 1877) was a nineteenth-century lawyer, judge, editor and politician who helped form the State of West Virginia and served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

His father had served as a private in the Berks County, Pennsylvania militia during the American Revolutionary War before moving across the Appalachians.

Daniel Polsley attended country schools as a child, completed preparatory studies and read law.

Her grandfather, Oliver Brown (1752-1846), had likewise fought in the American Revolution, but on the Massachusetts line before moving to the Virginia mountains.

Afterwards, fellow Republican John Witcher succeeded to the Congressional seat for one term before being replaced by a Democrat, and Polsley resumed his legal practice in Point Pleasant.