Background
MOY'NIHAN, Daniel was born on March 16, 1927 in Tulsa. Oklahoma. Son of John Henry and Margaret A. Phipps Moynihan.
university professor diplomatist and politician
MOY'NIHAN, Daniel was born on March 16, 1927 in Tulsa. Oklahoma. Son of John Henry and Margaret A. Phipps Moynihan.
City College, of New York, Tufts University and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Director of Public Relations, Institute Rescue Commission 1954. Successively Assistant to Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Acting Secretary to Government of N.Y’. State 1955-1958; Director New York State Government Research Project, Syracuse University 1959-1961.
Special Assistant to Secretary of Labor 1961-1962, Executive Assistant to Secretary 1962-1963, Assistant Secretary of Labor 1963-1965. Director Jt. Center Urban Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University 1966-1969. Professor, of Education and Urban Politics, Senior.
Assistant to President, of United States of America for Urban Affairs 1969, Counsellor to President, (with Cabinet rank) 1969-1970. Ambassador to India 1973-1974. Perm. Representative 1975-1976.
Senator from New York since 1977. Chairman Board of Trustees Hirshbom Museum. Fellow, London School of Economics: numerous honorary degrees.
N.Y’. Tenure Commission 1959-1960. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 1966-1969. American Philosophical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Married Elizabeth T. Brennan in 1955.