Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Arkansas Campaign

 
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Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas Campaign
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Arkansas Campaign
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas Campaign
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas Campaign

Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Arkansas Campaign

Object number2016.006.05
DateAugust 10, 1966
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of Winthrop Rockefeller during his 1966 gubernatorial campaign. Rockefeller is standing outside of his new campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas to officially kickoff his three month campaign. Rockefeller is wearing a suit and smiling while waving his rancher hat in the air. Campaign supporters are standing behind him by his campaign headquarters building with "Rockefeller Headquarters" painted in large letters across the top of the building.

    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 and became the thirty-seventh governor of Arkansas in 1967. Rockefeller died of pancreatic cancer on February 22, 1973, in Palm Springs, California.
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