Later Career in Public Administration
Daniel Keefe was part of a succession of trade union leaders who took the position of Commissioner General of Immigration. Stanford Lyman argues Keefe fitted the role, like his predecessors, because of nativist views and a willingness to use the post to enforce exclusion of migrant workers, especially Chinese workers. Keefe resigned from the position on 31 May 1913 and took a position in the Department of Labor for the rest of the decade. From 1921 to 1925 Keefe worked at the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation handling labour disputes.
Daniel Keefe died on 2 January 1929 in Elmhurst, Illinois.
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