Winthrop Rockefeller was an American politician and philanthropist.
48 Facts About Winthrop Rockefeller
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Winthrop Rockefeller is one of the grandchildren of Standard Oil co-founder John D Rockefeller.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was born in New York, to philanthropists John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
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Winthrop Rockefeller is one of the grandsons of Standard Oil co-founder John D Rockefeller.
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Winthrop Rockefeller had one elder sister named Abby, three elder brothers John III, Nelson, and Laurance, and a younger brother named David.
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Winthrop Rockefeller attended Yale University before resigning to go work in the oil industry.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was initially assigned to the 26th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was later assigned to the 77th Infantry Division.
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Winthrop Rockefeller eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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Winthrop Rockefeller earned a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Clusters and a Purple Heart for his actions aboard the troopship USS Henrico, after a kamikaze attack during the invasion of Okinawa.
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Winthrop Rockefeller's image appears in the Infantry Officer Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Winthrop Rockefeller resigned his position with the AIDC and conducted his first campaign for governor in 1964 against Faubus.
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Winthrop Rockefeller's campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, but Rockefeller energized and reformed the tiny Republican Party to set the stage for the future.
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In rapid succession, Mr Winthrop Rockefeller captiously took over most of the functions of the state chairman and in a matter of months succeeded in taking over and exercising absolute right of dictation as to each and every important party function at the state level.
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The evidence simply is unanswerable that Mr Winthrop Rockefeller is working for his own personal interest to the exclusion of all other considerations, which leaves the Republican Party in Arkansas hanging precariously at the whims of one individual.
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When Winthrop Rockefeller made his second run in the 1966 election, only 11 percent of Arkansans considered themselves Republicans.
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Democrats themselves seemed to be more interested in the reforms that Winthrop Rockefeller offered in his campaign than "winning another one for the party".
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Winthrop Rockefeller showed me many courtesies, and I still thought [despite feelings in 1964] that he would make a good governor and could be elected on the Republican ticket.
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Winthrop Rockefeller's service contributed greatly to the enormous benefits of two-party government in Arkansas.
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At the time Winthrop became governor, his brother Nelson Rockefeller had been the governor of New York since 1959, and remained so throughout Winthrop's four years in office.
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At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Winthrop Rockefeller received backing from members of the Arkansas delegation as a "favorite son" presidential candidate.
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Winthrop Rockefeller received all of his state's 18 votes; his brother Nelson, then concluding a major presidential bid against Richard M Nixon, received 277.
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Winthrop Rockefeller endured a number of personal attacks and a concerted whispering campaign regarding his personal life.
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One of Winthrop Rockefeller's most publicized "good-government" reforms was the ending of illegal gambling in the resort city of Hot Springs.
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Winthrop Rockefeller made headway in streamlining state government and secured passage of a state minimum-wage law.
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An Oliver Quayle poll in 1968 declared that Winthrop Rockefeller seemed "strange, alien, and foreign" to many voters.
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The poll maintained that many thought Winthrop Rockefeller sought too much power, that he drank too much, and that he spent too little time in his office.
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Winthrop Rockefeller had a particular interest in the reform of the Arkansas prison system.
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Winthrop Rockefeller decried the "lack of righteous indignation" about the situation and created a new Department of Corrections.
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Winthrop Rockefeller appointed a new warden, academic Tom Murton, the first professional penologist that the state had ever retained in that capacity.
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Winthrop Rockefeller focused on the state's lackluster educational system and proposed funding increases for new buildings and teacher salaries when the legislature allowed.
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Winthrop Rockefeller proposed to spend half of the new revenues sought on education, 12 percent on health and welfare, 10 percent on local government, and the remainder on state employee salaries and streamlined services.
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Winthrop Rockefeller established the Council on Human Relations despite opposition from the legislature.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was the only governor from a Southern state to hold a public memorial for Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1970, the Arkansas GOP under Winthrop Rockefeller hired its first paid executive director, Neal Sox Johnson of Nashville in Howard County.
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Winthrop Rockefeller lost his third-term bid, but he had inadvertently propelled the Democrats to reform their own party.
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On February 14,1948, Winthrop Rockefeller married actress Jievute "Bobo" Paulekiute.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was previously married to Boston Brahmin socialite John Sears Jr.
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On June 11,1956, Winthrop Rockefeller wed the Seattle-born socialite Jeanette Edris.
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Winthrop Rockefeller had two children, Bruce and Ann Bartley, from a previous marriage.
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In September 1972, Winthrop Rockefeller was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and endured a devastating round of chemotherapy.
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Winthrop Rockefeller died February 22,1973, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of sixty.
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Winthrop Rockefeller's body was cremated, and his ashes were interred at Winrock Farms in Morrilton, Arkansas.
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The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation provides funding for projects across Arkansas to encourage economic development, education, and racial and social justice.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was the subject of the December 2,1966, cover of Time magazine.
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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller then won two full four-year terms in 1998 and 2002.
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Winthrop Rockefeller developed the center in a relationship with the University of New Mexico.
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Winthrop Rockefeller is credited with helping develop a plan with Gussie Busch in the early 1970s to turn a portion of the large tract of undeveloped land between the two points into the massive Anheuser-Busch investment there, which included building a large brewery, the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park, the Kingsmill planned resort community, and McLaws Circle, an office park.