serviceyears branch death_date allegiance nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater country death_place imagesize profession preceded term_start order spouse name resting_place succeeded predecessor birth_place president jr/sr party office state successor religion ambassador_from article_title
1944 -- 1947 united states navy 26 march 2003 united states of america 1912 american 16 march 1927 january 7 , 1975 1995 1993 3 , 2001 february 2 , 1976 january tufts london school of economics university -lrb- ba , ma , ph.d -rrb- the united nations india washington , d.c. 177px sociologist , diplomat james l. buckley january 28 , 1973 1993 1992 3 , 1977 june 30 , 1975 february 12th 10th elizabeth moynihan daniel patrick moynihan arlington national cemetery hillary clinton john burdick a. scali kenneth keating lloyd bentsen quentin n. tulsa , oklahoma gerald r. ford richard nixon gerald r. ford united states senator democratic chairman senate committee on environment and public works of the senate finance committee chairman of the new york william baucus w. scranton william b. saxbe robert packwood max roman catholic november 2014 united states united states daniel patrick moynihan

daniel patrick moynihan

daniel patrick moynihan -lrb- march 16 , 1927 -- march 26 , 2003 -rrb- 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 re-elected three times -lrb- in 1982 , 1988 , and 1994 -rrb- .
he declined to run for re-election 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 .
