Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller

 
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Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller

Object number2015.010.14
DateAugust 18, 1941
Associated LocationBrooklyn, New York
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions9 1/4 × 7 in. (23.5 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of a young Corporal Winthrop Rockefeller disembarking from Army Transport ship Hunter Liggett at the Brooklyn Army Base (US Army Military Ocean Terminal) in New York. Rockefeller served in the Army's First Division and was returning from maneuvers. The photograph is dated August 18, 1941. It is a World Wide Photo.

    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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    Not on view
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