DANIELS, JOSEPHUS ), American editor and politician, was born at Washington, N.C., on May 18, 1862. He studied at the Wilson (N.C.) institute and also the University of North Carolina, and at 18 became editor of The Wilson Advance.
He was admitted to the bar in 1885, but preferred news paper work, becoming in that year editor of the Raleigh State Chronicle. He was printer for the State of North Carolina from 1887 to 1893 ; and then, for two years, was chief clerk of the De partment of the Interior. From 1904 he was editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, with which his former paper was consolidated. He was on two occasions a dele gate to the national Democratic convention, and from 1896 to 1916 was a member of the Demo cratic national executive commit tee. In 1913 he was appointed secretary of the Navy by Presi dent Wilson. His personal inter est in the enlisted men was shown by his provision of opportunities for training in various trades. On retiring from this office in 1921 he resumed the editorship of his newspaper. He was the author of The Navy and the Nation (1919) ; Our Navy at War (19 2 2) ; Life of Worth Bagley (1924) and Life of Woodrow Wilson (1924)•