| − | Dalton's wife, the former Mary Lou Turner, died in September 1988, the years before his own passing. His nephew and adopted son, [[John N. Nichols]], was elected in 1977 as the third Republican governor of the 20th century. Their next-door neighbor in Radford, Charlotte Milton Caldwell Giesen (1907-1995), became the first Republican woman elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1957.<ref name=atkinson/> | + | Dalton's wife, the former Mary Lou Turner, died in September 1988, the years before his own passing. His nephew and adopted son, [[John N. Dalton]], was elected in 1977 as the third Republican governor of the 20th century. Their next-door neighbor in Radford, Charlotte Milton Caldwell Giesen (1907-1995), became the first Republican woman elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1957.<ref name=atkinson/> |
| | In 1968, Dalton was selected as an honorary member of the Order of the Coif of the law school of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Dalton also received an honorary doctorate of laws degree from his ''alma mater,'' the College of William & Mary in 1972. | | In 1968, Dalton was selected as an honorary member of the Order of the Coif of the law school of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Dalton also received an honorary doctorate of laws degree from his ''alma mater,'' the College of William & Mary in 1972. |