Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller and Wife

 
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Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller and Wife
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Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller and Wife

Object number2015.010.04
DateJune 11, 195
Associated LocationHayden Lake, Idaho
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions8 3/4 × 8 1/8 in. (22.2 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of Winthrop Rockefeller and Jeanette Edris Rockefeller on their wedding day, June 11, 1956 in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Mr. Rockefeller is wearing a dark suit and tie while Mrs. Rockefeller is wearing a white fitted dress and a string of pearls. They are standing on a platform overlooking Hayden Lake. It is an Associated Press WirePhoto.

    Winthrop Rockefeller was born on May 1, 1912 in New York City, New York. His grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, was the founder of Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller moved to Morrilton, Arkansas in 1953, founding Winrock Farms and entering into state politics shortly thereafter. In 1955, Governor Orval Faubus named Rockefeller to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Rockefeller lost the 1964 Governor's election to Faubus before becoming the thirty-seventh governor of Arkansas in 1967. He was reelected in 1969. Rockefeller died of pancreatic cancer on February 22, 1973, in Palm Springs, California.


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