D. R. ANTHONY, Jr.
from History of Kansas Newspapers (1916)
 DANIEL
READ ANTHONY, JR., lawyer, journalist, and member of Congress from the
first district of Kansas, was born at Leavenworth, August 22, 1870,
a son of Col. Daniel R. and Annie (Osborn) Anthony. Mr. Anthony has
inherited many of the strong characteristics of his father, and is recognized
as a journalist of marked ability. He was educated in the public schools
of his native city, and the Michigan Military Academy, Orchard Lake,
Mich., and then entered the law department of the University of Michigan,
where he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1891, and was admitted
to the bar. On his return to Leavenworth he became connected with the
Leavenworth Times, and soon assumed the
management of the paper. When Colonel Anthony died, in November, 1904,
Mr. Anthony assumed entire control of the Times.
On March 29, 1907, he was unanimously nominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the first district, and was elected to the Sixtieth Congress
to fill a vacancy caused by the election of Charles Curtis to be United
States senator, and was re-elected to the Sixty-first Congress, receiving
27,796 votes to 19,842 for F. M. Pearl, the Democratic candidate, and
650 for J. F. Willetts, who ran on the Socialist ticket. In 1910 he
again became a candidate for the nomination, making his campaign as
a "regular" Republican against T. A. McNeal, the "Progressive"
candidate. In the primary election he was successful by a substantial
majority, and later at the November election he defeated J. W. Chapman,
the "Independent Democratic" candidate, by an overwhelming
majority, being thus again returned to Congress with the unqualified
endorsement of his constituents. His career as a representative in Congress
has been consistent, his political methods clean, and his endeavor always
has been to procure the best legislative results for the district he
represents. He is one of the leading newspaper men of Kansas and of
the day, and his paper advocates every policy for the moral and material
uplift of the people of Kansas and the nation. In June, 1897, Mr. Anthony
married Bessie Havens, the daughter of Paul Havens, of Leavenworth.
They have two children, Eleanor and Daniel.
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