Consolidation
Daniel's powerful personality, unquestioned integrity, strong leadership and history of civic involvement made him the obvious choice when it came time to choose a leader to design a new government and write its charter in the wake of widespread corruption and waste in local government during the 1960s.
The Local Government Study Commission was created by the Florida legislature in 1966 to develop a plan to merge city and county services. In 1968, Daniel led the effort to establish the only consolidated government in the state of Florida and one of the few in the nation. In reviewing John Fischer's Vital Signs, Time noted that according to Fischer "he hero of the consolidation of Jacksonville, Fla., where the voters in five municipalities chose to form one central government, is an enthusiastic oligarch named J.J. Daniel, who got his way simply because 'he knew almost everybody of consequence in the community.'"
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