Mace, Daniel

Born: 1811-09-05 Ross County, Ohio

Died: 1867-07-26 Lafayette, Indiana

Flourished: Indiana

Daniel Mace, a lawyer and congressman, attended public schools prior to studying law. He passed the bar in 1835 and commenced practicing law in Lafayette, Indiana. A year later, in 1836, he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives and became its clerk in 1837. While serving as the United States attorney for Indiana from 1849 to 1853, Mace was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Thirty-Second and Thirty-Third Congresses, spanning from 1851 to 1855. He was reelected for the Thirty-Fourth Congress, from 1855 to 1857, but as a Republican. Following his service in Congress, Mace resumed his law practice.

Mace married Mary "Polly" Ulley in November 1836 in Warren County, Indiana. The couple had two sons. After suffering a stroke in 1866, Mace ended his own life the following year.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Ward 3, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, IN, 73; Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1996 (Alexandria, VA: CQ Staff Directories, 1997), 1427; Indiana, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850 8 November 1836, Warren County (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997); Daily Ohio Statesman (Columbus), 30 July 1867, 4:1; Gravestone, Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, IN.