Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was a four-term U.S. Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1976 by the citizens of New York as the nominee of the Democratic Party and re-elected three times, in 1982, 1988, and 1994. He declined to run for re-election in 2000 and was succeeded by Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton began her campaign for the Senate at Moynihan's farm in upstate New York. Moynihan supported her bid for his Senate seat.

Academe and authorship

In addition to his distinguished career as a politician and diplomat, Moynihan was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and Syracuse University. After completing a tour of duty in the United States Navy in 1947 which he began in 1944 during World War II when he was 17 years old, Moynihan used his GI Bill benefits to attend Tufts University. He then received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the London School of Economics. He authored some 19 books, including Beyond the Melting Pot, an influential study of American ethnicity which he co-authored with Nathan Glazer in 1963, followed by The Negro Family: The Case for National Action otherwise known as the Moynihan Report in 1965, Family and Nation (1986), Came the Revolution (1988), On the Law of Nations (1990), and Secrecy (1998).

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Politician - Diplomat - Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Harvard University - Wesleyan University - Syracuse University - United States Navy - 1947 - 1944 - World War II - GI Bill - Tufts University - Fulbright Fellowship - London School of Economics - American ethnicity - Nathan Glazer - 1963 - Moynihan Report - 1965 - 1986 - 1988 - 1990 - 1998

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