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Nelson Rockefeller was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st U.S. Vice President, from 1974 to 1977. This biography of Nelson Rockefeller provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
He wanted to be popular and powerful. And he wanted to be President of the United States. But fate, it turned out, would not oblige. Born on July 8, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich ...
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Oct 6, 2014 · In a long, exceedingly detailed, and often enthralling biography, “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller” (Random House), the historian Richard Norton Smith has written what will...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, 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.
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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 Rockefeller believed in fate. After all, he was born on the same day as his larger-than-life grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., a coincidence he always took to be an omen of great...
Nelson A. Rockefeller. 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.
