[Charles Daniel]. American jurist, born at Cincinnati on the 11th of April 1811; a midshipman in the United States navy (1827–30); admitted to the bar in 1833; removed to St. Louis in 1834, and, entering politics, became United States Senator (1867–71), and chief justice of the United States court of claims (1871–85). He published Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (2d ed., 1858); Union and Antislavery Speeches (1864); and edited Pioneer Life in Kentucky, a series of letters from Daniel Drake to his children (1870); and Life of Dr. Daniel Drake (1871). He died on the 1st of April 1892.
