Daniel E. Hydrick

Daniel Edward Hydrick Sr. (August 6, 1860 – January 15, 1921) was an American judge. he was associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina on August 6, 1860, and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880. He began practicing law in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was twice elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and then twice to the South Carolina Senate. He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was reelected to a full term in 1918. He died on January 15, 1921, in Washington, D.C.; he had been travelling from Baltimore, Maryland to Spartanburg, South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip.