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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkDaniel Patrick MOYNIHAN
(1927-2003)
Senate Years of Service:
1977-2001Party: DemocratMOYNIHAN, Daniel Patrick,
a Senator from New York; born in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Okla., March
16, 1927; attended the public and parochial schools of New York
City; attended City College of New York 1943; graduated, Tufts
University, Medford, Mass., 1948; received graduate and law degrees
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1949, 1961, 1968;
studied as a Fulbright fellow, London School of Economics and
Political Science 1950-1951; served in the United States Navy
1944-1947; Navy reserve 1947-1966; assistant and secretary to New
York Governor W. Averell Harriman 1955-1958; member, New York State
Tenure Commission 1959-1960; director, Syracuse University’s
New York State Government Research Project 1959-1961; director,
Joint Center for Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Harvard University 1966-1969; author; held cabinet
or sub-cabinet positions under Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon
Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford 1961-1976; Ambassador to
India 1973-1975; United States Permanent Representative to the
United Nations 1975-1976; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1976; reelected in 1982, 1988, and 1994 and served
from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 2001; was not a candidate for
reelection in 2000; chairman, Committee on the Environment and
Public Works (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses);
Committee on Finance (One Hundred Third Congress); awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 9, 2000; professor at
Syracuse University’s Maxwell School 2001; senior scholar,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2001-2003; died of
complications from a ruptured appendix on March 26, 2003; interment
at Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. On the Law of Nations. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1990; Katzmann, Robert A., ed. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life. Washington,
D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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