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Daniel Webster Ambrose Jr. (1896–1992) also known as D. W. Ambrose,[1] was an American lawyer and government official in Huntington, West Virginia. He was a Democrat.[2]
Biography
[edit]Daniel Webster Ambrose Jr. was born on September 8, 1896, in Pickens, Mississippi, to parents Mary E. (née Redmond) and Daniel Webster Ambrose Sr..[3][4][5] He served in the United States Army during World War I.[2]
In 1940, he was elected president of the Mountain State Bar Association.[1] He served as an assistant auditor of the State of West Virginia.[6] President Harry S. Truman appointed him as a government secretary for the Virgin Islands in 1950.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "West Va. Lawyers Pick D. W. Ambrose". The Afro-American. 1940-08-31. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-06-23.
- ^ a b "Daniel Webster Ambrose Jr. (1896–1992)". The Political Graveyard: African ancestry Politicians in West Virginia.
- ^ "The Political Graveyard: Elks, politicians, Mississippi". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ "Who's who in Colored America". C.E. Burckel. June 13, 1950 – via Google Books.
- ^ Who's Who in Colored America. C.E. Burckel. 1950. p. 9 – via Google Books.
AMBROSE , DANIEL WEBSTER , JR . , lawyer ; b . Pickens , Miss . , Sept. 8 , 1896 ; s . Daniel , Sr. and Mary E. ( Redmond ) Ambrose ; m . Irene N. Miller of Huntington , W.Va. , 1931. B.S. , Alcorn A. & M
- ^ "Isabelle A. Lee Named to School Board". The Enterprise-Tocsin. 1968-12-19. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-06-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McCoy, Donald R.; Ruetten, Richard T. (October 8, 2021). "Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration". University Press of Kansas – via Google Books.