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Senate Years of Service: 1977-2001 Party: Democrat
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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 Universitys 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 Universitys 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.
BibliographyMoynihan, 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.
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