biography
| name: |
Rockefeller, Winthrop
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pronunciation:
[rokuhfeler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912–73)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in New York, USA, the grandson of John D Rockefeller. A Yale dropout, he worked for Socony Vacuum Oil (1939–41, 1946–51), with time out to serve in World War 2 and then resigned to head the IBEC Housing Corp, a Rockefeller philanthropy providing low-cost housing. Moving to Arkansas (1953), he started a 3500-acre cattle ranch, also chairing the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. As Republican governor (1967–71), he advanced school desegregation and promoted penal reform. |
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