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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 another Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. Hillary began her campaign for the Senate at his farm in upstate NY. Moynihan supported Hillary's bid for the senate.1 Education
Moynihan was born in Tulsa, OklahomaTulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. As of the revised 2003 census report, the city had a total population of 387,807. It is the county seat of Tulsa County 6. History Tulsa began as a settlement of Creek Indians during the migration of tribes fr and brought by his family to New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York, at the age of six months. There he was brought up in a poor neighborhoodNeighborhood or Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. A neighborhood (in American English) or neighbourhood (in British English) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. The residents of a given neighborhood are. He attended the publicUnited States at the national level, public education is supervised by the Department of Education Public education is schooling provided by the government, and paid for by taxes. Public education emerged in the early 19th century as a tool of industriali and parochial schoolA parochial school is a type of private school which engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. Parochial schools are typically grammar schools or high schools run by churches or parishes. See also Charter school, Christian schos of New York City and then attended City College of New YorkCity College of New York was originally founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847. It was subsequently named the College of the City of New York but that name was later transferred to the complex of the municipally-owned colleges in New, 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.
2 Public service
Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and continuing through the administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, and Gerald Rudolph Ford, serving in various cabinet and sub-cabinet-level posts, as the United States Ambassador to India from 1973 to 1975, and as the United States Representative to the United Nations from 1975 to 1976; in February 1976, Moynihan served as President of the United Nations Security Council. In his early political career he ran unsuccessfully for President of the New York City Council.
In 1976, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Representative Bella Abzug in the Democratic primary, and Conservative Party incumbent James Buckley in the general election.
