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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkMOYNIHAN, Daniel Patrick
(1927—2003)
Senate Years of Service:
1977-2001
Party:
Democrat
MOYNIHAN, 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.
Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
. 1963. Reprint. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1970.
___. “Why Ethnicity?” Commentary
58 (October 1974): 33-39.
___, eds. Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Katzmann, Robert A., ed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life
. Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998.
Moynihan, Daniel P. Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era
. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
___. Coping: On the Practice of Government
. 1973. Reprint. New York: Vantage Books, 1975.
___. Counting Our Blessings: Reflections on the Future of America
. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1980.
___. Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
___. On the Law of Nations
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
___. Loyalties.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
___. Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty
. New York: Free Press, 1969.
___. Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
___. The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan
. New York: Random House, 1973.
___. Secrecy: The American Experience
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
___. “The Social Responsibility of Business.” In Business and Society and Change
, pp. 7-25. New York: American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1975.
___, with Suzanne Weaver. A Dangerous Place
. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978.
___, ed. On Understanding Poverty: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
. New York: Basic Books, 1969.
___, ed. Toward a National Urban Policy
. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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