Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.

 
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Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.
Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.
Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.
Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.

Photograph, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Sr.

Object number2015.011.13
DateSeptember 17, 1969
Associated LocationWilliamsburg, Virginia
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of Winthrop Rockefeller Sr. with Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. This photograph was taken on September 17, 1969 at the Southern Governors Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. Maddox is sitting on a bicycle with his feet on the floor, while Rockefeller pretends to sit on the handlebars. 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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