Samuel Gordon Daily (1823 – August 15, 1866) was an American politician from the Nebraska Territory.

He was an unsuccessful candidate of the Free Soil Party for election to the Indiana General Assembly; he then moved to Indianapolis and was engaged in the cooperage business.

Daily built a sawmill on the Missouri River and in 1858 became a member of the Nebraska Territorial House of Representatives.

Samuel Daily successfully contested as a Republican the election of Experience Estabrook to the Thirty-sixth United States Congress.

In March 1865, he was appointed deputy collector of customs in New Orleans, Louisiana at the special request of President Abraham Lincoln.