Daniel J. Tate of Tennessee appeared to have started and ended his ministerial career in Tennessee with service in a number of Iowa towns. According to the Iowa State Bystander, he served as a pastor at the Second Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant in 1898 and 1899. He then served in Evans into 1901. Tate hosted the Iowa Baptist Association meeting there in September 1901 and he was listed as treasurer in the Oskaloosa Herald September 12, 1901.

Tate spent a brief time in Pella and then moved to Decatur, Illinois and La Grange, Missouri. The family’s rental home in Decatur was the site of a suspicious fire in 1903. In June 1909 he was installed as pastor at New Hope Baptist Church in Springfield, Illinois. Tate moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan by 1920, then to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

By 1930, he was a pastor in Paris, Illinois; later Tate moved to Indiana before finally returning to Tennessee. Late in his career Tate was the minister for the Mt. Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The Chattanooga Times noted his service at the church for a funeral in February 1945. His date of death and burial location are unknown at this time.