had £30. Reintzel ran for and won election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1794 and 1795, and served one-year terms as a delegate from Montgomery County in 1795 and 1796. Mayor of Georgetown Reintzel was elected Mayor of Georgetown on January 4, 1796, to a one-year term. Other members of the Reintzel family were also prominent in town affairs at this time: Valentine Reintzel served on the Georgetown Common Council in 1791, and brothers Anthony and Johan served on separate committees in 1800 which investigated incidents of yellow fever in the mid-Atlantic area. Reintzel's first term of office ended on January 1, 1797. He was replaced as mayor by Lloyd Beall, brother of George Beall (whose land was condemned in order to found the town). But Beall received a commission in the Continental Army, which was then fighting in the American Revolutionary War. Believing he could not serve as mayor and in the army at the same time, he resigned on October 19, 1799. Reintzel was elected mayor the same day. Reintzel's mayoralty was widely supported by the people of the town, which was growing rapidly during this period. He served one-year terms as mayor continuously for the next three years. Reintzel stepped down as mayor at the beginning of January 1803 in favor of the new mayor, wealthy landowner Thomas Corcoran. Corcoran served two terms as mayor, and Reintzel was again elected mayor in 1805. He served two terms as mayor before stepping down for good on January 3, 1808. Post-mayoral life Daniel Reintzel married Elizabeth Waughop in 1804. He owned at least three African slaves during his lifetime, including one named Abraham Aftley. Aftley had been owned by Lloyd Beall, and was purchased at some point by Reintzel. Reintzel freed Aftley on March 26, 1806, and required no payment from Aftley or anyone else in order to give Aftley his freedom. In November 1812, President James Madison appointed Reintzel justice of the peace for Washington County (that part of the District of Columbia outside Georgetown and the City of Washington). Supreme Court cases In the last two decades of his life, Reintzel was involved in two legal actions—both of which ended up before the Supreme Court of the United States. The first case, , involved an action taken by Reintzel as mayor. His brother, George, and a business partner, Jacob Mountz, had taken out a loan