Daniels, Josephus

Daniels, Josephus( 1862–1948),
editor and publisher of the Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer, was Wilson's secretary of the navy and ambassador to Mexico (1933–42). Besides The Navy and the Nation (1919), Our Navy at War (1922), and The Life of Woodrow Wilson (1924), he wrote his memoirs: Tar Heel Editor (1939), Editor in Politics (1941), The Wilson Era (2 vols., 1944, 1946), and Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947).