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Daniel Kemmis (born c. 1946) is an American attorney and the author of several books including:
Community and the Politics of Place, University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8061-2227-7 (review)
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
He was born and raised on a farm in eastern Montana. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Montana School of Law. He has formerly served as mayor of Missoula, Montana (1990–1996), speaker and minority leader of the Montana House of Representatives (1983–1985) and director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana.
In 1995, he was named as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries.
He served on the board of directors of Philanthropy Northwest from 2007 to 2015, representing Montana and the Kettering Foundation.