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  Office White House Press Secretary
  Term Start March 1945
  Term End Summer 1945
  Predecessor James Leonard Reinsch
  Successor Charles Griffith Ross
  Birth Place Raleigh , North Carolina , USA
  Death Place Hilton Head , South Carolina , USA
  Party Democrat
  Spouse Elizabeth Bridgers <br> Lucy Billing Cathcart
  Children Elizabeth <br> Lucy <br> Adelaide <br> Mary Cleves
  Occupation Author, Editor
  Religion Episcopal


Jonathan Worth Daniels ( April 26 , 1902 - November 6 , 1981 ) was an American author, editor, and White House Press Secretary . Daniels' term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest since the inception of the position in 1937 .1 He held the position in 1945 under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman 2.


EDUCATION

Jonathan Worth Daniels attended Centennial School in Raleigh from 1908 to 1913. When his family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1913, he studied at the John Eaton School from 1913 to 1915, and St. Albans School from 1915 to 1918. Daniels attended the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill , and graduated in 1921 with a B.A. He continued at UNC for graduate school, earning an M.A. in English in 1921. As a student in Chapel Hill, he edited '' The Daily Tar Heel '' and participated in the Carolina Playmakers. Daniels passed the North Carolina bar exam despite failing out of Columbia University Law School, but never practiced law.


PERSONAL LIFE

When his father became Secretary of the Navy in 1913, the family moved to Washington, D.C.


BOOKS

  • ''Clash of Angels''

    • :New York: Brewer and Warren (1930)

  • ''The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace''

    • :New York: McGraw-Hill (1962) (Also published in later editions)

  • ''The End of Innocence''

    • :Philadelphia: Lippincott (1954) (Also published in later editions)

  • ''Frontier on the Potomac''

    • :New York: Macmillan (1946) (Also published in a later edition)

  • ''The Gentlemanly Serpent and Other Columns from a Newspaperman in Paradise: From the Pages of the Hilton Head Island Packet, 1970-73''

    • :Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (1974)

  • ''The Man of Independence''

    • :Philadelphia: Lippincott (1950) (Also published in a later editions)

  • ''Mosby: Gray Ghost of the Confederacy''

    • :Philadelphia: Lippincott (1959)

  • ''Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr''

    • :Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday (1970)

  • ''Prince of Carpetbaggers''

    • :Philadelphia: Lippincott (1958)

  • ''The Randolphs of Virginia''

    • :Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1972)

  • ''Robert E. Lee''

    • :Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (1960)

  • ''A Southerner Discovers New England''

    • :New York: Macmillan (1940)

  • ''A Southerner Discovers the South''

    • :New York: Macmillan, (1938) (Also published in a later edition)

  • ''Stonewall Jackson''

    • :New York: Random House (1959)

  • ''Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina''

    • :New York: Dodd, Mead (1941) (Also published in a later edition)

  • ''They Will Be Heard: America's Crusading Newspaper Editors''

    • :New York: McGraw-Hill (1965)

  • ''The Times Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor''

    • :Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1966) (Also published in a later edition)

  • ''Washington Quadrille: The Dance beside the Documents''

    • :Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1968)

  • ''White House Witness, 1942-1945''

    • :Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1975)



REFERENCES


  Title White House Press Secretary
  Before J Leonard Reinsch
  After Charles Griffith Ross