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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
ot delegates in 1841-42, and on January
29, 1842, he was elected a member of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia — a
position in which he continued till his death,
M^y 18, 1852. He was a learned lawyer,
an accomplished scholar, and a brilliant
speaker and orator. He was father of Colo-
nel John B. Baldwin, who was the leader of
the Union party in the secession convention
of 1861, but who voted for secession when
the issue was presented of fighting one sec-
tion of the country or the other.
Daniel, William, a descendant of James Daniel, who was born in Middlesex county, 'Virginia, about 1680, and son of William Daniel (1770-1839), a judge of the general court from 1813 to 1839, by his wife, Mar- garet Baldwin, sister of Judge Briscoe G. Baldwin, was born in Cumberland county, November 26, 1806. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney College and the Univer- sity of Virginia, studied law in 1827-28, and, ic is said, was licensed and practiced before he was twenty-one, and was also elected a member of the legislature and served while he was yet a minor. On December 15, 1846, he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals; was reelected by the people after the adoption of the constitution of 185 1, and served until 1865. By his mar- riage with Sarah A. Warwick, a daughter of Major John M. Warwick, of Lynchburg, he was father of John W. Daniel, who served with much distinction in the United States senate. Judge Daniel died at Farm- ville, Virginia, March 28, 1873. The Daniel family in other lines also has had many dis- tinguished representatives.
Moncure, Richard C. L., was born in Staf- ford county, Virginia, in 1805. His great-
grandfather. Rev. John Moncure, a native
of Scotland, descended from a Huguenot
refugee, settled in Virginia in the eighteenth
century, and was for many years in charge
of the parish of Overwharton. Richard re-
ceived his early training at the local schools,
and supplemented it by private reading. He
was admitted to the bar in 1825, and soon
attained the front rank. He practiced in
Fredericksburg and neighboring counties
and the Supreme Court of Appeals at Rich-
mond. He entered politics in 1849, when a
revision of the code was considered neces-
sary. He was elected to the legislature and
v/as placed on the committee having charge
01 this work, rendering valuable service.
In 1*851 he was appointed to fill the vacancy
occurring at the death of Judge Francis T.
Brooke, but, the state constitution being
changed that year, the judges* commissions
were vacated and elections became neces-
sary. He was chosen as one of the five
judges constituting the Supreme Court, and
held the position until the close of the war.
His tenure of office was temporarily sus-
pended during the reconstruction period
(1865-1870), but on the adoption of the new
constitution in 1870 he was again elected,
and held the position until his death. He
was on the bench more than thirty years,
and his decisions are found in a large num-
ber of the Virginia reports. He married in
early life. Mary Washington Conway, and
had a large family. His eldest son, J. C.
Moncure. became a judge of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana. Judge Moncure died
at his home at Stafford, August 26, 1882.
Samuels, Green B., was born in Shenan- doah county, February i, 1806, and studied law under Judge Henry St. George Tucker, in Winchester. He was elected as a Demo-
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