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Apr 2, 2014 · Early Life and Family. Born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the third of six children born to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his first wife, Abby Aldrich ...
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. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in ...
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Nelson and Mary Rockefeller were divorced in 1962. On May 4, 1963, Rockefeller married Margaretta Large "Happy" Fitler. They had two sons together: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Jr. and Mark Fitler Rockefeller. With his first wife, Rockefeller had lived at the three top floors at 810 Fifth Avenue.
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Dec 19, 2018 · Happy was born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, and through her first husband had become close to several members of the Rockefeller clan. In its obituary, The New York Times reported that Happy was a confidante of Nelson’s father, John D Rockefeller Jr, the son of Standard Oil’s founder and one of the richest men in the world.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Rockefeller Jr. married Abby Greene Aldrich, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Nelson W. Aldrich, in 1901. Her philanthropy focused on institutions such as the YWCA and Planned Parenthood , but her greatest achievement was the founding, with friends, of the Museum of Modern Art (1929; MoMA) in New York.
May 19, 2015 · By Robert D. McFadden. May 19, 2015. Happy Rockefeller, the socialite whose 1963 marriage to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, soon after both had been divorced, raised a political storm in ...
Nelson had a more strained relationship with his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose emphasis on discipline and modesty didn't quite suit his third child. Unlike his father, in fact, Nelson ...
