Snyder, Edward F.

Edward F. Snyder; Ed Snyder; Edward Furnas Snyder; Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice; born ca. 1925 in Iowa, raised in Maine; married to Dorothy Snyder; law degree (1951) from Yale Law School; joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955; retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of FCNL; argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder were tax resisters: they withheld taxes during the Vietnam War which would have gone to military purposes; in 1990 they filed suit against the U.S. government, arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

From the description of Edward F. Snyder papers, 1950- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 741759366