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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—USNelson Aldrich ROCKEFELLER
(1908-1979)
ROCKEFELLER, Nelson
Aldrich, (grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich; uncle of John D.
[Jay] Rockefeller IV), a Vice President of the United States; born
in Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, July 8, 1908; attended
Lincoln School of Teachers’ College at Columbia University,
New York, N.Y., 1926; graduated, Dartmouth College 1930; engaged in
oil, real estate, and banking businesses, and family philanthropic
activities; served variously as trustee, treasurer, president,
chairman of the board of Museum of Modern Art in New York City
1932-1975; director, Office of Inter-American Affairs 1940-1944;
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin-American Affairs 1944-1945;
returned to family philanthropic activities and helped establish
American International Association; member and chairman of
President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization
1953-1958; Under Secretary of the United States Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare 1953-1954; Special Assistant to the
President for Foreign Affairs 1954-1955; Governor of New York
1959-1973; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination in 1964, 1968, and 1972; nominated by President Gerald
R. Ford on August 20, 1974, under the provisions of the
twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution, to be the Forty-first
Vice President of the United States; confirmed by the Congress and
took the oath of office on December 19, 1974, and served until
January 20, 1977, when the term ended; returned to family
philanthropic activities and worked extensively on his art
collection in New York, N.Y., where he died on January 26, 1979;
cremated; ashes interred at the family estate, Pocantico Hills,
N.Y.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Rockefeller, Nelson A. The
Future of Freedom: A Bicentennial Series of Speeches.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976; Persico,
Joseph. The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A.
Rockefeller. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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