{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Michael R. Daniel | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|4|13}} | birth_place = Gaffney, South Carolina, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | order = 84th | office = Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina | governor = Richard Riley | term_start = January 12, 1983 | term_end = January 14, 1987 | predecessor = Nancy Stevenson | successor = Nick Theodore | constituency = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = | office3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | constituency3 = | party = Democratic | occupation = Attorney | majority = | relations = | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Michael Roland Daniel''' (born April 13, 1940)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hmQkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Daniel,+Michael+Roland%22+AND+%221940%22 Legislative manual - General Assembly of South Carolina] pp 13–14</ref> served as the 84th lieutenant governor of South Carolina. He served from 1983 to 1987 concurrently with his fellow Democrat, Governor Richard Riley.
== Biography == Daniel was educated at the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society and graduated in 1962 with a B.A. in Journalism.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Baskin|editor-first=Fran|title=Garnet and Black|year=1962|publisher=University of South Carolina|location=Columbia, SC|page=216|url=http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/garnetAndBlack/gb1962.pdf}}</ref> He graduated from the USC School of Law in 1965.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bull|first=Walter|title=Garnet and Black|year=1964|publisher=University of South Carolina|location=Columbia, SC|page=288|url=http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/garnetAndBlack/gb1964.pdf}}</ref>
To win the Democratic runoff election for lieutenant governor, Daniel defeated State Senator Tom Turnipseed, a lawyer from Columbia, who had renounced his opposition to school integration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc04-4_008|title=Laments on the Demise of Tom Turnipseed|publisher=beck.library.emory.edu|accessdate=March 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715013300/http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc04-4_008|archive-date=July 15, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Daniel lost the race for governor in 1986 to Republican Carroll Campbell.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniel, Michael R.}} Category:Lieutenant governors of South Carolina Category:South Carolina Democrats Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:People from Gaffney, South Carolina Category:University of South Carolina alumni Category:20th-century South Carolina politicians