{{Short description|American politician}} {{No footnotes|date=June 2022}}

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{{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Wardwell |image = Daniel Wardwell (New York Congressman).jpg |caption = |state = New York | constituency = {{ushr|NY|20|C}} (1831–1833)<br>{{ushr|NY|18|C}} (1833–1837) | term_start = March 4, 1831 | term_end = March 3, 1837 | predecessor = Jonah Sanford, <br>Joseph Hawkins | successor = Isaac H. Bronson | birth_date = May 28, 1791 | birth_place = Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = March 27, 1878 (aged 86) | death_place = Rome, New York, U.S. | resting_place = Maplewood Cemetery, Mannsville, New York }} '''Daniel Wardwell''' (May 28, 1791 – March 27, 1878) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1831 to 1837,

== Biography == Born in Bristol, Rhode Island, Wardwell was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1811. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Rome, New York.

He moved to Mannsville, New York, in 1814. He served as judge of the court of common pleas for Jefferson County, New York.

Wardwell was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1838.

=== Congress === Wardwell was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1837). He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses).

=== Later career and death === He returned to Rome, New York, and resumed the practice of law.

He died in Rome, New York, March 27, 1878. He was interred in Maplewood Cemetery, Mannsville, New York.

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state= New York | district= 20 | before= Jonah Sanford, <br>Joseph Hawkins | after= Noadiah Johnson | years= 1831 – 1833 <br>with Charles Dayan}} {{US House succession box | state= New York | district= 18 | before= Nathaniel Pitcher | after= Isaac H. Bronson | years= 1833 – 1837 }} {{s-end}}

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