Photograph, Jeannette Rockefeller

 
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Photograph, Press - Jeanette Rockefeller
Photograph, Jeannette Rockefeller
Photograph, Press - Jeanette Rockefeller
Photograph, Press - Jeanette Rockefeller

Photograph, Jeannette Rockefeller

Object number2017.022.12
Date1969
Associated LocationArkansas, U.S.A.
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions10 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (27 × 18.9 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA black and white photograph of First Lady Jeannette Rockefeller accompanied by Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller. Gov. Rockefeller is on the left wearing a suit and site and is waving his right hand, while First Lady Rockefeller is on the right. She is wearing a button-down suit skirt and glasses while waving her left hand.

    Jeannette Edris Rockefeller was born on July 13, 1918 in Seattle, Washington. Jeannette married Winthrop Rockefeller on June 11, 1956. In 1959 Jeannette and Winthrop did a statewide fundraising campaign for the Museum of Fine Arts (now the Arkansas Arts Center). Jeannette became the president of the Arkansas Arts Center Board of Trustees in 1960 and held the position until 1968. Jeannette divorced Winthrop in 1971. She died on December 7, 1997 and is buried in Seattle.

    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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