By Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 26, 2003; 5:59 PM
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the scholar and senator, the orator and author, whose intellectual and political leadership did much to shape national policy on the major issues of his time, died today, his successor, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on the Senate floor.
The cause of death was not immediately announced but Sen. Moynihan, 76, had been ill for several months. This month he had been hospitalized at the Washington Hospital Center after an emergency appendectomy.
A Democrat, Sen. Moynihan represented New York in the Senate for four terms. He decided not to seek reelection in 2000.
