Elbert Clifton Daniel, Jr

Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. (September 19, 1912-February 20, 2000) was managing editor of the New York Times. Before assuming the top editorial job at the paper, he served as the paper's London and Moscow bureau chief.

Clifton Daniel was married to former United States President Harry S. Truman's daughter, Margaret. They married on April 21, 1956 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri. The couple reared four sons and resided in Washington D.C., and New York City during their marriage.

Husband of Margaret Truman. They were married on April 21, 1956, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri. They had four sons: Clifton Truman Daniel (born 1957); William Wallace Daniel (1959 - 2000), who died in a New York City taxi cab collision; Harrison Gates Daniel (born 1963); Thomas Washington Daniel (born 1966).

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OBIT: Clifton Daniel, a Managing Editor Who Set a Writerly, Courtly Tone In Shaping The Times, Dies at 87 By ERIC PACE Published: February 22, 200

Clifton Daniel, the courtly North Carolinian who served as managing editor of The New York Times from 1964 to 1969 after a career as a correspondent in wartime London, war-torn Europe and the Middle East, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87 .

The cause was complications of a stroke and heart disease, said his wife, Margaret Truman Daniel.

Mr. Daniel's long, adventuresome and many-sided professional life was once summed up in a magazine profile with the headline Up From Zebulon. Zebulon was the tiny lumber mill town in northeastern North Carolina where he was born and reared and where his parents saved the income from the family drugstore to put him through college in the Depression.

A small-town Southern background was something that Mr. Daniel shared with his predecessor as managing editor, Turner Catledge, who was from Philadelphia, Miss. And when Mr. Daniel was married in 1956, after many footloose years in Europe and the Middle East, it was to a down-to-earth young woman whose father, like Mr. Daniel's, had worked as a shopkeeper far away from Times Square. The bride was Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Truman, who had run a haberdashery in Missouri.