Daniel P. Moynihan papers, 1765-2003

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1927, Mar. 16	Born, Tulsa, Okla.
1944-1947	Active duty with the United States Navy
1948	B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
1949	M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
1949-1950	Assistant in government, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
1950-1951	Student, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England
1951-1953	Budget assistant, United States Air Force base, Ruislip, England
1954	Director of public relations, International Rescue Committee
1955	Married Elizabeth T. Brennan
1955-1958	Assistant to W. Averell Harriman, governor of New York
1957-1958	Lecturer, Russell Sage College, Troy, N.Y.
1958-1960	Member, New York State Tenure Commission Secretary, Public Affairs Committee of the New York State Democratic Party
1959	Lecturer, New York State School of Industrial Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1959-1961	Director, government research project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
1960	Member, New York state delegation to the Democratic National Convention Wrote position papers on urban problems for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign
1960-1961	Member, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1960-1961	Assistant professor of political science, Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
1961	Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
1961-1962	Special assistant to secretary of labor
1962	Member, President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue
1962-1963	Executive assistant to secretary of labor
1963	Published with Nathan Glazer Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press
1963-1965	Assistant secretary of labor for policy planning and research
1965-1974	Vice-chairman, President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue
1965	Unsuccessful candidate for city council president, New York, N.Y.
1965-1966	Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1966-1968	Chairman, Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1966-1973	Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Professor of education and urban politics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1969	Published Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty. New York: Free Press
1969-1970	Assistant for urban affairs, counselor, and cabinet member, President Richard M. Nixon administration
1970	Published Toward a National Urban Policy. New York: Basic Books
1971	Member, United States delegation to the twenty-sixth General Assembly of the United Nations
1971-1973	Consultant to President Richard M. Nixon Member, President's Science Advisory Committee
1971-1976	Vice-chairman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
1972	Published with Frederick Mosteller On Equality of Educational Opportunity. New York: Random House
1973	Published The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan. New York: Vintage Books Published Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government. New York: Random House
1973-1975	Ambassador to India
1973-1977	Professor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1975	Published with Nathan Glazer Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
1975-1976	Permanent representative for the United States to the United Nations
1976	Member, New York state delegation to the Democratic National Convention
1977-2000	United States senator from New York
1978	Published with Suzanne Weaver A Dangerous Place. Boston: Little, Brown
1980	Published Counting Our Blessings: Reflections on the Future of America. Boston: Little, Brown
1984	Published Loyalties. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1986	Published Family and Nation. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1988	Published Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1990	Published On the Law of Nations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
1993	Published Pandemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press
1996	Published Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
1998	Published Secrecy: The American Experience. New Haven: Yale University Press
2000	Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
2001-2003	Senior policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
2003, Mar. 26	Died, Washington, D.C.