Jonathan W. Daniels
Jonathan W. Daniels | |
|---|---|
| 4th White House Press Secretary | |
| In office March 29, 1945 – May 15, 1945 | |
| President | Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman |
| Preceded by | Stephen Early |
| Succeeded by | Charlie Ross |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jonathan Worth Daniels April 26, 1902 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 6, 1981 (aged 79) Hilton Head, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Bridgers Lucy Billing Cathcart |
| Children | Elizabeth Lucy Adelaide Mary Cleves |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Columbia University |
Jonathan Worth Daniels (April 26, 1902 – November 6, 1981) was an American author, editor, and White House Press Secretary. He was a founding member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1940 until 1950.[1] For most of his life, he worked at The News & Observer, and later founded The Island Packet.
Education
Jonathan Worth Daniels was the son of Josephus Daniels and Addie Worth Bagley Daniels. He attended Centennial School in Raleigh from 1908 to 1913. When his father became United States Secretary of the Navy in 1913, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the John Eaton School from 1913 to 1915, and St. Albans School from 1915 to 1918. Daniels attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and graduated in 1921 with a B.A. He continued at UNC for graduate school, earning an M.A. in English in 1921. As a student in Chapel Hill, he edited The Daily Tar Heel and participated in the Carolina Playmakers.[2] Daniels passed the North Carolina bar exam despite failing out of Columbia University Law School, but never practiced law.[3]
White House Press Secretary
Daniels' term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest since the inception of the position in 1937.[2] He held the position in 1945 under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.[4][5][3]
Later life
In 1966, he revealed the affair between Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in his book The Time Between the Wars.[6] He died in 1981.
Books
- Clash of Angels
- New York: Brewer and Warren (1930)
- The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace
- New York: McGraw-Hill (1962) (Also published in later editions)
- The End of Innocence
- Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1954) (Also published in later editions)
- Frontier on the Potomac
- New York: Macmillan (1946) (Also published in a later edition)
- The Gentlemanly Serpent and Other Columns from a Newspaperman in Paradise: From the Pages of the Hilton Head Island Packet, 1970-73
- Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (1974)
- The Man of Independence
- Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1950) (Also published in a later editions)
- Mosby: Gray Ghost of the Confederacy
- Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1959)
- Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr
- Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday (1970)
- Prince of Carpetbaggers
- Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1958)
- The Randolphs of Virginia
- Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1972)
- Robert E. Lee
- Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (1960)
- A Southerner Discovers New England
- New York: Macmillan (1940)
- A Southerner Discovers the South
- New York: Macmillan, (1938) (Also published in a later edition)
- Stonewall Jackson
- New York: Random House (1959)
- Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina
- New York: Dodd, Mead (1941) (Also published in a later edition)
- They Will Be Heard: America's Crusading Newspaper Editors
- New York: McGraw-Hill (1965)
- The Times Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor
- Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1966) (Also published in a later edition)
- Washington Quadrille: The Dance beside the Documents
- Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1968)
- White House Witness, 1942-1945
- Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1975)
Notes
- ^ George Foster Peabody Awards Board Members
- ^ a b "Inventory of the Jonathan Daniels Papers, 1865-1982". Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Worth Daniels". North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ "News Article". Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal. 30 March 1945. p. 9.
Jonathan Daniels, who succeeded Stephen T. Early as the man who handles presidential press relations, took the oath of office Thursday.
- ^ Oral History Interview with Jonathan Daniels Truman Library. 1963. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ "New light on the revelations of Franklin Roosevelt's 30-year affection for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd". Life. September 2, 1966. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
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References
External links
- Oral Interview with Jonathan Daniels at Truman Library
- Inventory of the Jonathan Daniels Papers, 1865-1982, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels at Oral Histories of the American South
- Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner Discovers the South", Southern Spaces, 20 May 2010.
