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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

[Congressional biography]

Born: March 16, 1927 in Tulsa, OK
Died: March 26, 2003 in Washington, DC

Education:

  • Tufts University, B.A., 1948, M.A., 1949, Ph.D., 1961

Military Service:

  • U.S. Navy, 1944-1947
  • U.S. Naval Reserve, 1947-1966

Career:

  • Aide to NY Governor Averell Harriman, 1955-1958
  • Director of Syracuse University's government research project, 1959-1961
  • Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1963-1965
  • Urban Affairs Assistant to President Nixon, 1969-1971
  • Professor, 1971-1973
  • U.S. Ambassador to India, 1973-1975
  • U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., 1975-1976


Election Results for Daniel Patrick Moynihan


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1976 49 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 333,697 36.4%
1976 49 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 3,422,594 54.2%
1982 55 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 922,059 85.1%
1982 55 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 3,232,146 65.1%
1988 61 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 4,048,649 67.0%
1994 67 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 526,766 74.7%
1994 67 NY D U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 2,646,541 55.2%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this election.



Ideology Data for Daniel Patrick Moynihan


Click on the number in the 'Conserv.' column to see all of the key votes for that year.

YearAgeBodyConservative
Coalition		Party UnityPresidential
Support		Vote %LiberalConserv.
P
1977 50 Senate 19 73 79 13 D 75 17 89 70 9
1978 51 Senate 18 70 82 10 D 75 16 91 68 8
1979 52 Senate 15 81 79 13 D 80 12 90 63 15
1980 53 Senate 12 78 79 14 D 74 16 90 76 5
1981 54 Senate 8 87 71 14 R 41 47 86 79 13
1982 55 Senate 14 84 86 11 R 28 71 96 95 17
1983 56 Senate 16 80 74 21 R 46 51 92 80 8
1984 57 Senate 21 66 68 25 R 36 53 90 84 18
1985 58 Senate 27 67 81 13 R 33 65 96 95 5
1986 59 Senate 36 63 72 25 R 40 59 96 85 14
1987 60 Senate 19 78 93 5 R 37 60 97 95 0
1988 61 Senate 27 70 91 6 R 48 47 97 90 8
1989 62 Senate 24 71 90 7 R 52 45 98 83 4
1990 63 Senate 11 89 89 9 R 31 69 98 94 4
1991 64 Senate 25 75 92 7 R 35 65 99 95 0
1992 65 Senate 34 66 90 10 R 35 65 100 100 0
1993 66 Senate 15 85 95 5 D 93 7 100 90 4
1994 67 Senate 16 84 92 8 D 84 16 99 100 0
1995 68 Senate 19 79 84 12 D 75 16 96 95 0
1996 69 Senate 18 79 87 10 D 78 19 97 95 10
1997 70 Senate 64 36 77 22 D 81 17 99 60 13
1998 71 Senate 25 75 83 10 D 71 19 93 95 8
1999 72 Senate 85 15 76 12 D 86 14 86 95 9
2000 73 Senate 92 8 83 8 D 100 0 94 85 23
Lifetime conservative rating:   8%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this row.


Conservative Coalition: According to the publication "Congressional Quarterly" (CQ), this is an alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats (from back when Southern Democrats tended to be conservative or at least moderate) against Northern Democrats in Congress.

This concept had significant meaning perhaps through the 1980's. These statistics stopped being computed after 2000 because conservative Democrats no longer existed except in very rare cases. The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the coalition; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the coalition. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Party Unity: According to CQ, a Party Unity vote in Congress is one in which the parties were split, with a majority of Democrats opposing a majority of Republicans.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with his party; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the party. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Presidential Support: These are votes for which the President has stated his position, either in via a message to Congress, by press conference remarks or other public statements and documents.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the President; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the President. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast. The "P" column indicates the party of the President in each year.


Vote %: The percentage of roll-call votes in which this Representaive or Senator participated by voting "Yes" or "No" (as opposed to "Present" or not voting at all.)


Liberal Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the ultra-liberal advocacy organization called "Americans for Democratic Action" (ADA). They have been rating members of Congress since 1947. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the liberal position on a key issue. The methodology behind the calculation can be found here. Ratings followed by an asterisk were calculated the "ADA way" due to missing data regarding key votes in the ADA source material.


Conservative Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the conservative advocacy organization called the "American Conservative Union" (ACU). They have been rating members of Congress since 1971. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the conservative position on a key issue.

The liberal and conservative ratings are not expected to add to 100% because the two groups use different sets of key votes to determine their ratings. Conservative ratings from 1961 through 1970 (and for 2024) were calculated based on key votes as selected by the creators of this website.