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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American politician (–)
This article is about the U.S. senator from New York. For the U.S. representative from Illinois, see P. H. Moynihan.
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| In office January 3, – January 3, | |
| Preceded by | James Buckley |
| Succeeded by | Hillary Clinton |
| In office January 3, – January 3, | |
| Preceded by | Lloyd Bentsen |
| Succeeded by | Bob Packwood |
| In office September 8, – January 3, | |
| Preceded by | Quentin Burdick |
| Succeeded by | Max Baucus |
| In office June 30, – February 2, | |
| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | John Scali |
| Succeeded by | Bill Scranton |
| In office February 28, – January 7, | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Keating |
| Succeeded by | Bill Saxbe |
| In office November 5, – December 31, | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Arthur F. Burns |
| Succeeded by | Donald Rumsfeld |
| In office January 23, • Daniel Patrick Moynihan (White House Central Files: Staff Member and Office Files)Series I: Correspondence Box 1 A [09/09/ – 11/17/] Box 2 D [09/02/ – 10/22/] Box 3 G [08/04/ – 11/06/] • Daniel Patrick Moynihan—Cabinet officer, diplomat and four-term United States Senator—was one of the foremost public servants and public intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Moynihan was born in to an Irish-Catholic family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The family plunged into poverty and moved to New York City when Moynihan’s father abandoned them. Moynihan grew up largely in New York City during the Great Depression, shining shoes in Times Square and then finding employment as a longshoreman. He attended the City College of New York for a year before joining the United States Navy in During his officer training, Moynihan enrolled at Tufts University, receiving an undergraduate degree in sociology and eventually a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he wrote his dissertation on the International Labor Organization. Moynihan served on the staff of Governor W. Averell Harriman, Democrat of New York, in whose office he met his future wife and ca | |