He was solicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, a colonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as a State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond.
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The two opponents met on Belle Isle, and Elmore wounded Daniels with his first shot.
CONCOMP also developed the IBM 7772 based Audio Response Unit (ARU) as an I/O device for use with MTS, the MAD/I compiler, mini-computer based graphics terminals, and the Set-Theoretic Data Structure model that was later used in ILIR:MICRO.
During the American Civil War he served as lieutenant colonel of Col. Henry M. Elmore's Twentieth Texas Infantry.