Daniel Patrick Moynihan | |
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Chair of the Senate Finance Committee | |
In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995 |
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Preceded by | Lloyd Bentsen |
Succeeded by | Bob Packwood |
Chair of the Senate Environment Committee | |
In office September 8, 1992 – January 3, 1993 |
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Preceded by | Quentin Burdick |
Succeeded by | Max Baucus |
United States Senator from New York |
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In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2001 |
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Preceded by | James Buckley |
Succeeded by | Hillary Clinton |
12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations | |
In office June 30, 1975 – February 2, 1976 |
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President | Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | John Scali |
Succeeded by | Bill Scranton |
10th United States Ambassador to India | |
In office February 28, 1973 – January 7, 1975 |
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President |
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | Kenneth Keating |
Succeeded by | Bill Saxbe |
Counselor to the President | |
In office November 5, 1969 – December 31, 1970 |
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President |
1970 Served with Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Preceded by | Arthur Burns |
Succeeded by | Donald Rumsfeld |
White House Urban Affairs Advisor | |
In office January 23, 1969 – November 4, 1969 |
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President | Richard Nixon |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by |
John Ehrlichman (Domestic Affairs) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
March 16, 1927
Died | March 26, 2003 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
(aged 76)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Liz Brennan |
Education |
City University of New York, City College Middlebury College Tufts University (BS, BA, MA, PhD) London School of Economics |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | United States Navy |
Years of service | 1944–1947 |
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994), serving a total of 24 years as Senator. He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford. He is currently the longest-serving Senator from the State of New York; if Chuck Schumer completes his current term, he will tie Moynihan for the record.
Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Margaret Ann (née Phipps), a homemaker, and John Henry Moynihan, a reporter for a daily newspaper in Tulsa. He moved at the age of six with his family to New York City. Brought up in a poor neighborhood, he shined shoes, attended various public, private, and parochial schools, and ultimately graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He was a parishioner of St. Raphael's Church, Hell's Kitchen, and also cast his first vote in that church. He and his brother, Michael Willard Moynihan, spent most of their childhood summers at their grandfather's farm in Bluffton, Indiana. Moynihan briefly worked as a longshoreman before entering the City College of New York (CCNY), which at that time provided free higher education to city residents.