Rockefeller, Nelson A. 1908-1979
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Name (Hebrew)
רוקפלר, נלסון אולדריץ', 1908-1979
Name (Latin)
Rockefeller, Nelson A. 1908-1979
Name (Arabic)
روكفلر، نلسون أ.، 1908-1979
Other forms of name
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 1908-1979
nnaa Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 1908-
Date of birth
1908-07-08
Date of death
1979-01-26
Place of birth
Bar Harbor (Me.)
Place of death
New York (N.Y.)
Associate group
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1932 - 1932)
United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs
United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs (1940 - 1940)
United States. President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization
United States. President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization (1953 - 1953)
New York (State). Governor
New York (State). Governor (1959 - 1959)
United States. Office of the Vice President
United States. Office of the Vice President (1974-12-19 - 1974-12-19)
Occupation
Governors--New York (State)
Vice-Presidents--United States
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Nelson Aldrich
Biographical or Historical Data
New York (State) Governor, 1959-Dec. 18, 1973
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Sources of Information
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, November 12, 2013(Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979); 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.)
- U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.Nominations Department of state ... 1944.
- Biog. index, Sept. 1976-Aug. 1979(Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 1908-1979)
- Desmond, J. Nelson Rockefeller, 1964(Nelson Rockefeller)
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