Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan March 16 1927 March 26 2003 was an American politician diplomat and social scientist1 A member of the Democratic Party he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon and as the United States ambassador to India and to the United Nations Born in Tulsa Oklahoma Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City Following a stint in the navy he earned a PhD in history from Tufts University He worked on the staff of New York Governor W Averell Harriman before joining President John F Kennedys administration in 1961 He served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor under Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson devoting much of his time to the War on Poverty In 1965 he published the Moynihan Report on black poverty Moynihan left the Johnson administration in 1965 and became a professor at Harvard University