Jaquelin James Daniel
(1916-1990)

Died aged c. 74

Jaquelin James Daniel was born in 1916, a descendant of one of Jacksonville’s pioneer families. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, received his law degree in 1942 from the University of Florida and joined his father’s Jacksonville law firm. In 1960, he became the president of Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Company, a mortgage banking company, and in 1976 was named publisher of the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal. Daniel chaired the local Government Study Commission which developed the plan to merge city and county services and, in 1968, he led the effort to establish the only consolidated government in the state and one of the few in the nation. He was active in the founding of Jacksonville’s Episcopal High School, and worked on a number of boards such as the American Red Cross, the District Welfare Board and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. Jaquelin James Daniel died in 1990.

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Jaquelin James Daniel (September 22, 1916 – August 7, 1990) was an American lawyer, businessman, civic leader, and newspaper publisher. He was born and lived most of his life in Jacksonville, Florida, where he led the effort that resulted in the Jacksonville Consolidation of 1968, which combined city and county governments to improve services. He was known in his lifetime as one of the city's and state's most politically powerful people.

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