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Daniel Kemmis (born December 5, 1945)[citation needed] is an American author and a retired politician.
Kemmis was the minority leader and speaker of the Montana House of Representatives and mayor of Missoula, Montana.[citation needed] He has been active on many public and non-profit boards, especially in the field of philanthropy where he was on the boards of the Kettering Foundation, the Northwest Area Foundation and Philanthropy Northwest.[citation needed]
Kemmis received his undergraduate education at Harvard University where he earned a B.A. in government, focusing his study on political theory and graduating with high honors in 1968.[citation needed] Later, he interrupted his service in the Montana legislature to earn a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Montana School of Law.[citation needed]
Recognition[edit]
His work has been honored with several awards, including the Ruckelshaus Award for Collaborative Leadership,[citation needed] the Wallace Stegner Prize[citation needed] and the Charles Frankel Prize, awarded by President Bill Clinton for outstanding contribution to the field of the humanities.[citation needed]
Books[edit]
Community and the Politics of Place, University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8061-2227-7
The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the American Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. ISBN 0-395-68630-X
This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West, Island Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55963-842-7
Citizens Uniting to Restore our Democracy, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020