Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention

 
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Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention
Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention

Photograph, Winthrop Rockefeller - Republican National Convention

Object number2016.008.01
DateApril 1964
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white press photograph of Winthrop Rockefeller with his wife, Jeanette, his son, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, and his stepson, Bruce Bartley. This photograph was taken in April 1964. Rockefeller was elected delegate to the Republican National Convention. Rockefeller was announcing his candidacy for governor of Arkansas, where he was expected to face Democratic incumbent Governor Orval Faubus. At the time, Governor Faubus had not announced his plans to run for a sixth term.

    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.

    It is an AP Wirephoto photograph.
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    Not on view
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