QUESTIONS:
1. Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently died at age 76. Moynihan became a U.S. senator from New York after he was ambassador to the United Nations. What other UN ambassadors later went on to win elective office?
2. Two former governors were named UN ambassadors. Can you name them?
3. Three career diplomats have served as UN ambassador. Can you name them?.
4. Four former U.S. representatives were named UN ambassador. Who were they?
5. How many UN ambassadors have been on a national ticket?
ANSWERS:
1. George H.W. Bush, UN ambassador from 1971-73, was elected President; Andrew Young, ambassador from 1977-80, went on to be mayor of Atlanta; and Bill Richardson, ambassador from 1996-99, was elected governor of New Mexico last year.
2. Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, UN ambassador from 1961-65, and former GOP Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, UN ambassador in 1976.
3. Ambassador Charles Yost (1969-71), Thomas Pickering (1988-92), and present Ambassador John Negroponte.
4. Bush, Scranton, Young, and Richardson.
5. Three. Henry Cabot Lodge, UN Ambassador from 1953-60 and Republican nominee for Vice President in 1960; Stevenson, Democratic nominee for President in 1952 and '56; and Bush.
