Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was reelected three times . He declined to run for reelection in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford.
Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Margaret Ann , a homemaker, and John Henry Moynihan, a reporter for a daily newspaper in Tulsa. He moved at the age of six with his family to New York City. Brought up in a poor neighborhood, he shined shoes, attended various public, private, and parochial schools, and ultimately graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He was a parishioner of St. Raphaels Church, Hells Kitchen, and also cast his first vote in that church. He and his brother, Michael Willard Moynihan, spent most of their childhood summers at their grandfathers farm in Bluffton, Indiana. After high school, Moynihan worked as a longshoreman before entering City College of New York , which at that time provided free higher education to city residents.
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