Michael R. Daniel

Michael Roland Daniel served as the 84th List of [lieutenant governors of South Carolina|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. He graduated from the USC School of Law in 1965.
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.
Daniel lost the race for governor in 1986 to Republican Carroll Campbell.