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DANIELS, Dominick Vincent, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., October 18, 1908; educated in the Jersey City public schools;
attended Fordham University, New York City; graduated from Rutgers University
Law School, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1929; was admitted to the New Jersey bar in
1930 and commenced the practice of law in Jersey City, N.J.; appointed
magistrate of the Jersey City Municipal Court in May 1952, reappointed in 1955,
and subsequently was appointed presiding magistrate, in which capacity he
served until March 1958; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960, 1964,
and 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; returned to the practice of
law in Jersey City; was a resident of Union City, N.J., until his death in
Jersey City on July 17, 1987; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, North
Arlington, N.J.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Dominick Daniels, Democratic Representative
from New Jersey. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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