Daniel J. Flood (November 26, 1903 - May 28, 1994) was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. He was born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and St. Augustine, Florida. He graduated from Syracuse (N.Y.) University in 1924. He attended Harvard Law School and was graduated from Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle in 1929. He was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was an attorney for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in 1934 and 1935. Flood served as the deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and counsel for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board 1935-1939. He was director of the State Bureau of Public Assistance Disbursements and executive assistant to the State treasurer 1941-1944. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1947). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress and he resumed the practice of law. He was elected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1953). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress and he again resumed the practice of law. Later, he was elected to the Eighty-fourth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his resignation January 31, 1980. He died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennyslvania in 1994.
