Charles Ezra Daniel (November 11, 1895 – September 13, 1964) was a

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from

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and founder of Daniel International Corp. Born in Elberton, Georgia, he moved with his family to

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in 1898. He attended the public schools, was a cadet at

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( Charleston) from 1916 to 1918 and during the

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served as a lieutenant in the infantry from 1917 to 1919. He was a businessman with interests in construction, banking, building supplies, telecommunications, insurance, and airlines, and was a life trustee of Clemson College and a member of the board of South Carolina Foundation of Independent Colleges. He and R. Hugh Daniel co-founded Daniel International Construction Corporation, which, at one time, was the largest construction company in the world. The corporation was based in the Landmark Building which is located in

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. In 1963 he was given the "Industrialist of the Year" award by President Kennedy. Daniel was appointed, on September 6, 1954, as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Burnet R. Maybank, and served from September 6, 1954, until his resignation December 23, 1954; he was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy. He resumed management of his business interests and helped persuade Kohler to build a factory in Spartanburg on a 260-acre lot in 1955.Marko Maunula. Guten Tag, Y’all: Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950-2000. University of Georgia Press, 2010. He died in Greenville in 1964 and was interred in Springwood Cemetery.

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