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Article: Former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan Dies at 76.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 27, 2003
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By Joel Siegel, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 27--Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a dockworker and bartender who rose from poverty to become a four-term senator from New York and the leading scholar-politician of his time, died yesterday in Washington. He was 76.
The popular Democrat had been hospitalized three times since January, most recently for an emergency appendectomy and infection March 11. His condition worsened, and he died at 4:15 p.m. yesterday.
Across a colorful and sometimes controversial career, Moynihan advised four Presidents and was a United Nations ambassador, Harvard professor, author and the ...