Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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 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.