Daniel W. Tallmadge (February 5, 1842 – November 14, 1894) was an American attorney and politician from New York.
In 1877, he was appointed to the Bureau of Assessments to the Tax Office and held that position until he took his seat in the Assembly.
His entrance into political service was undertaken from a desire mainly to effect some reform in the management of the Kings County charities system, and especially in that of the Lunatic Asylum.
Tallmadge is largely remembered for taking a libel suit to The New York World newspaper for a story written by pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly, which implicated him in a vote-buying scandal.
[1] A descendant of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, who was a Revolutionary soldier of distinction, and a Member of Congress for sixteen years, of James Tallmadge, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York in 1825, and of the Recorder of New York City, Frederick A.