Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller

 
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Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller
Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller
Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller
Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller

Press, Photograph - Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller

Object number2017.022.11
DateJuly 27, 1966
Associated LocationLittle Rock, Arkansas
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (25.2 × 20.5 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA press photograph of Winthrop and Jeannette Rockefeller on July 27, 1966 following Rockefeller's win for the Republican nomination for governor of Arkansas. Mrs. Rockefeller is on the left wearing a dress suit and glasses, and Winthrop is sitting down wearing a suit and tie smiling and holding this fingers up in a peace sign.

    Winthrop Rockefeller was born on May 1, 1912 in New York City, New York and moved to Morrilton, Arkansas in 1953. Rockefeller lost the 1964 Governor's election to Gov. Orval Faubus before becoming 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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