Biography
Marion Price Daniel Sr (properly Marion Price Daniel II) was born in Dayton, Texas, to Marion Price Daniel Sr (born 1882 – died 1937) and Nannie Blanch Partlow (born 1886 – died 1955), in Liberty Texas. He was the eldest child. Sister Ellen Virginia Daniel would be born in 1912, and brother William Partlow Daniel in 1915.
Daniel's wife, Jean Houston Baldwin Daniel, was a great-great-granddaughter of the legendary Sam Houston. The couple had four children: Marion Price Daniel Jr. (properly Marion Price Daniel, III), Jean Houston Murph, Houston Lee, and John Baldwin.
Price graduated from Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco. He worked as a lawyer in Liberty County. In 1938, he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and took office early in 1939. Daniel opposed Texas adopting a sales tax, and he was elected Speaker of the House in 1943.
The historian Charles Waite of the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg describes Daniel, particularly in regard to his early years in politics, as a "southern business progressive who promoted efficiency in government in regard to roads, schools, and agriculture." Though he stood with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who swept Texas on four occasions, Daniel was skeptical of the growing federal bureaucracy and generally opposed tax increases to pay for added costs of government.
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