Bios.Tulsa,OK DANIEL, Lee
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Posted by Charmaine Keith on Wed, 04 Nov 1998
Surname: DANIEL, WHISNANT, KELLOUGH
LEE DANIEL
Vol. 3, p. 1235 
At the age of twenty-five Lee Daniel has already achieved the honors of position and a promising reputation in the Oklahoma bar. Mr. Daniel soon after finishing his university career came to Oklahoma, and for the past three years has been actively identified with the bar at Tulsa. His offices are in the Palace Building of that city. 
Lee Daniel was born in Ackerman, Mississippi, May 5, 1890, a son of William John and Millie V. (WHISNANT) Daniel. Both parents were born in Choctaw County, Mississippi. His father was born in 1862 and died in 1912, at the age of fifty-two while Mr. Daniel was a child when his mother died. He is the older of two living children, one being deceased. William J. Daniel was also a lawyer, was educated in the University of Mississippi and Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and for more than twenty-five years was engaged in general practice at Ackerman, Mississippi. He was a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Knight of Pythias, and in politics a democrat. 
Mr. Lee Daniel was also given the equipment of a liberal education preparatory to his professional career. He attended the Washington and Lee University in Virginia, the University of Mississippi, and finished his law course in the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, where he graduated with the class of 1911. He was soon afterwards admitted to all the courts of Mississippi, and in July, 1911, came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was admitted by examination to the Oklahoma court. In December 1912, Mr. Daniel set up in active practice associated with R. W. KELLOUGH. At the age of twenty-two, in 1912, he was elected a justice of the peace and took up the official routine on January 1, 1913. 
Mr. Daniel while in college and university belonged to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Tau Nu Epsilon Greek Letter Society, and in Masonry is a member of the Tulsa Lodge No. 171, A. F. & A. M., of McAlester Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tulsa. He is also a member of the Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E., of the Tulsa Country Club, and is president of the Pulsa Panhellenic Club. In politics he acts with the democratic party. 
Transcribed by Charmaine Keith 3 November 3, 1998