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.

Education

Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was brought by his family to New York City at the age of six months. There he was brought up in a poor neighborhood, shined shoes for money, and attended various public, private, and parochial schools before graduating from Harlem High School. He studied at the City College of New York, which at that time provided free higher education. He went on to graduate from Tufts University; received graduate and law degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; studied as a Fulbright fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and served in the United States Navy. He became a professor at Syracuse University.

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