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Family and education
Mitchell Elias Daniels, Jr., was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, to Dorothy Mae (née Wilkes) and Mitchell Elias Daniels, Sr.[5] His paternal grandparents were Christian immigrants from Syria. Daniels has been honored by the Arab-American Institute with the 2011 Najeeb Halaby Award for Public Service.[6][7][8] His mother's ancestry was mostly English (where three of his great-grandparents were born), as well as Scottish.[9] Daniels spent his early childhood years in Pennsylvania, Tennessee,[10] and Georgia.
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