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    Winthrop Rockefeller

    Governor of Arkansas

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  1. Winthrop Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 – February 22, 1973) was an American politician and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fourth son and fifth child of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He is one of the grandchildren of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. As an entrepreneur in Arkansas, he ...

  2. Apr 30, 2024 · Winthrop Rockefeller (born May 1, 1912, New York City—died Feb. 22, 1973, Palm Springs, Calif., U.S.) was an American politician and philanthropist and a member of the famed Rockefeller family. He was the second youngest of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. He left college in 1934 and did various kinds of work for the Rockefeller ...

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  3. Oct 11, 2023 · Rockefeller was a “transitional leader” in the sense that he helped discredit the “Old Guard” domination of the Faubus years and, in so doing, made Arkansans more receptive to political and social change. Winthrop Rockefeller was born on May 1, 1912, in New York City to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.

  4. The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, part of the University of Arkansas System, is located at Winthrop’s beloved Petit Jean Mountain property, which, much as it did when he was alive, still forms ...

  5. Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. National headlines carried the news in the summer of 1953: 41-year-old Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful families and a dashing society figure, had suddenly pulled up stakes from New York City and relocated to the top of a mountain in the middle of Arkansas.

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  6. Politician, farmer, businessman. Winthrop Paul "Win" Rockefeller (September 17, 1948 – July 16, 2006) was an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 17th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1996 until his death in 2006. He was a member of the Rockefeller family .

  7. Mar 7, 2022 · Winthrop Rockefeller Collection, UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture YOUNG WINTHROP: In Maine in 1922.. It was Winthrop’s secular version of a city on a hill that his namesake ...

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