Daniel Seeger

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Daniel Andrew Seeger (born c. 1934) is a retired American non-profit-business administrator, and a Quaker religion and social-issue writer, who was earlier a defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists that was decided by the Supreme Court.

Seeger had come from a Roman Catholic background, been heavily influenced by Quaker ideas, and volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). In 1958, he was denied conscientious-objector status under the 1948 military-draft law, on grounds that his religious beliefs did not constitute "belief in a Supreme Being"; he was eventually ordered to enter the armed forces, and convicted of draft refusal. In 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Seeger that his conviction was mistaken, because Congress, in its statutory language, "did not intend" using "the usual understanding" of "Supreme Being", but rather an interpretation that extended to Seeger's "compulsion" to "goodness".

Seeger made a career in the administration of the AFSC. In the 1980s and 90s he wrote four pamphlets^[1] for publication by the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, and two^[2] by the Quaker study-center publisher Pendle Hill. He retired in September 2000 from the role of executive director of Pendle Hill.

[edit] Other work

• He has collaborated, as a cinematographer, with the musician Pete Seeger and the musician's wife Toshi Seeger.

[edit] See also

• In stillness there is fullness: a peacemaker's harvest: essays and reflections in honor of Daniel A. Seeger's four decades of Quaker service; edited by Peter Bien and Chuck Fager, Belfonte, Pennsylvania, Kimo Press, ISBN 0-947177-17-8

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NAME	Seeger, Daniel Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American Quaker
DATE OF BIRTH	1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH