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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 .
Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. Kirk pursues clues threaded throughout Rockefeller’s life, tracing his family ...
The fourth of six children of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, he earned a BA from Princeton University, attended Harvard Law School, and served in the Navy during World War II. Laurance was less attracted to the spotlight than his brothers Nelson (who was vice president under Gerald Ford and served four terms as New York's governor) or Winthrop (who was governor of Arkansas).
About. WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER was born in New York City on May 1, 1912, the son of D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He attended Yale University from 1931 to 1934. In 1941 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart.
Winthrop Rockefeller was, like Goldwater and Nixon, a Republican—in deed, Arkansas's first Republican governor since Reconstruction—but he belonged to the party's dwindling moderate wing. Interestingly, many of the politically charged responses portrayed Rockefeller's action as unprecedented on the part of the executive branch of state ...
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller was the first Republican governor of Arkansas elected since reconstruction, serving two terms from 1967 to 1971. The University of Arkansas System is the official home for the administration of the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures program. The program was established in 1972 and endowed by friends of ...
Abigail Rockefeller Simpson (b. 1958), who married Todd Mydland. In 1946, she began her second marriage, to Dr. Irving H. Pardee (1892–1949), a neurologist and brother of cardiologist Harold E. B. Pardee. [2] [4] After his death in 1949, she married Jean Mauzé (1903–1974), a banker, on April 23, 1953. They remained married until his death ...
