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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, [1] was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family, he previously ...
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News writer, producer WCBS-TV and Nelson Rockfeller's aide...
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Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (née Fitler, formerly...
- Rodman
Rodman Clark Rockefeller (May 2, 1932 – May 14, 2000) was an...
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Michael Clark Rockefeller (May 18, 1938; disappeared...
- Mary Todhunter Clark
Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (June 17, 1907 – April 21,...
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Steven Clark Rockefeller (born April 19, 1936) is an...
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 – April...
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (/ˈɑldɹɪt͡ʃ/; November 6, 1841 –...
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Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant,...
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Childhood & Early Life. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S., to John B. Rockefeller Jr., and his first wife, Abby Greene Aldrich. He was the grandson of John D. Rockefeller Sr., founder of the Standard Oil Company and was the third of six children born into one of the wealthiest families in the country.
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He tried three times to gain his party's nomination for the United States presidency but lost to the slightly more conservative Vice President and future President Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1968 and conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona in 1964. He refused to support Goldwater in the general election after losing to him, which Nixon conde...
When Richard Nixon resigned (quit) as president on August 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald Ford became the president. On August 20, Ford chose Rockefeller to be the next vice president of the United States. He was chosen out of three other people; the other two were Donald Rumsfeld, the then-United States Ambassador to NATO, and George H.W. Bush, the...
His paternal grandfather was John D. Rockefeller Sr. His maternal grandfather was United States Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island. He was the son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich. He was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He was the brother of David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Bank, Winthrop, later Governor of Arkansas, Jo...
He was married twice. His first was to Mary Todhunter Clark until they divorced. His second was to Margaretta Fitler Murphy until his death from a heart attack.
Media related to Nelson Rockefellerat Wikimedia Commons 1. Rockefeller Archive Center: Nelson Rockefeller Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback MachineContains details on the collection of public and private papers available to researchers at the Center. 2. The Rocky Roll Archived 2013-08-27 at the Wayback Machine An extended portrait by Time Magazine...
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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 ...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the third of six children of John D. Rockefeller and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; he was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine. He attended the Lincoln School, a division of the Teachers College of Columbia University. In 1930, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, with a B.A. in economics.
Ford chose Nelson A. Rockefeller, a liberal Republican who had served as governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and had unsuccessfully sought his party’s presidential nomination several times. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller—the son of businessman John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Greene Aldrich—was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Me.
Born on July 8, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller soon showed signs of the irrepressible temperament that would be his trademark. He led his brothers in all kinds of projects ...
