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Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 - March 26, 2003) 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 (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). 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. On February 18, 1974, he presented to the Government of India a check for Rs. 16,640,000,000 which is equivalent to $2,046,700,000, which was the greatest amount paid by a single check in the history of banking.
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