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Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (née Fitler, formerly Murphy; June 9, 1926 – May 19, 2015) was a philanthropist who, as the wife of vice president Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004)...
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Born in Philadelphia to sports journalist Francis J. Phelan,...
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Her mother was Margaretta Large Harrison and her father was William Wonderly Fitler, Jr., an heir to a cordage fortune. Rockefeller is known by her nickname, "Happy", given when she was a child. She is a great-great-granddaughter of Union general George G. Meade, the commander in the Battle of Gettysburg.
She married Dr. James Slater Murphy, a virologist associated with Rockefeller Institute who was a close friend to Nelson Rockefeller on December 11, 1945, they divorced on April 1, 1963. They had the following four children, James B. Murphy II, Margaretta Harrison Murphy, Carol Slater Murphy, and Malinda Fitler Murphy, who married Francis Menotti, ...
In 1971, Rockefeller served as chairwoman of the board for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. She was appointed as a public delegate to the United Nations by President George H. W. Bushin 1991.
She was a breast cancer survivor who had suffered mastectomy in 1974, two weeks after Betty Ford underwent the same operation.She died of a short-illness at the age of 88.
Feb 7, 2024 · When the governor divorced his wife of 31 years to marry Happy in 1963, it caused the most enormous scandal and was widely thought to have tanked Rockefeller’s chances of winning the 1964 ...
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Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller was a philanthropist who, as the wife of vice president Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in office.
May 20, 2015 · Margaretta “Happy” Rockefeller, widow of former U.S. Vice President and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and one of the first women to speak publicly about her breast cancer in the 1970s, has...
May 20, 2015 · ‘Happy’ Rockefeller dies at 88, a symbol of old political taboos. Former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and his bride, Happy, arrive in Caracas, Venezuela, en route to their ranch in Valencia for their...
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May 20, 2015 · Happy Rockefeller created a scandal when she married Nelson Rockefeller, but it was a union that endured.
