John R. J. Daniel

John Reeves Jones Daniel (January 13, 1802 – June 22, 1868) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.

Daniel was born near Halifax, North Carolina and was instructed privately at home.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1821.

He moved to Louisiana in 1860 and settled near Shreveport, where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in planting.

His son, Junius Daniel, became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, dying as a result of a mortal wound at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864.