sentences:  After receiving his law degree, Daniel moved to Liberty, Texas, and began his legal practice there, where he was also elected Justice of the Peace for Liberty County.In 1968, at age 27, he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from the same seat his father had held from 1939 to 1945.After the fallout from the Sharpstown scandal, with those connected being voted out of office, there was a 50% turnover in both houses of the Texas Legislature.