Daniel Hiester (1747-1804) An American political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th Century. He was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty. He was the brother of John Hiester and Gabriel Hiester, cousin of Joseph Hiester, and the uncle of William Hiester and Daniel Hiester the younger.

Daniel Hiester was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1747. His father, also named Daniel Hiester, emigrated from Silesia in 1737, and settled in Gosenhoppen, Pennsylvania.

After school, Hiester engaged in the mercantile business in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution, Hiester served as a colonel and later a brigadier general of the Pennsylvania Militia.

In 1784 he was elected to the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. In 1787, he was appointed as a commissioner to negotiate the Connecticut land claims dispute.

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1788 and served in the first three congresses from 1789 to his resignation on July 1, 1796.

He moved to Hagerstown, Maryland and was again elected to congress in 1800. He was reelected in 1802.

He died in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 1804.