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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
# Neva Rockefeller (born 1944 – physician; chairman of the United States advisory board of the international aid group Doctors Without Borders; trustee and chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. # Eileen Rockefeller (born February 26, 1952). Rockefeller was born in New York City, where he grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West 54th Street, the tallest private residence ever built in the city at the time. | |||
Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier John Davison Rockefeller Jr. | |||
He Graduated with Certificate 1826. In 1936, Rockefeller graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where he worked as an editor on The Harvard Crimson. Rockefeller enlisted in the United States Army and entered Officer Candidate School in 1943. | |||
David attended Student at Harvard University. He attended Student at University of Chicago. He also studied economics for a year at Harvard and then a year at the London School of Economics (LSE) under Friedrich von Hayek. | |||
After returning to the United States to complete his graduate studies, he received a Ph.D. Rockefeller was acquainted with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Allen Dulles and his brother, Eisenhower administration Secretary of State John Foster Dulles—who was an in-law of the family—since his college years. | |||
David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. From 1941 to 1942, Rockefeller was assistant regional director of the United States Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services. He was promoted to Captain in 1945. | |||
He also knew and associated with the former CIA director Richard Helms as well as Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., a Chase Bank employee and former CIA agent whose first cousin, CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr., was involved in the Iran coup of 1953. He served in other positions and became president in 1960. The extended family also became involved in their own philanthropic organization, formed in 1967 and primarily established by third-generation members, called the Rockefeller Family Fund. | |||
Kennedy's Senate seat after Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, a post Nelson also offered to their nephew John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV. He was both the chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980 and remained chairman until 1981. He named Kissinger to the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and consulted with him frequently, with the subjects including the Chase Bank's interests in Chile and the possibility of the election of Salvador Allende in 1970. | |||
In 1975 the bank was branded a "problem bank" by the Federal Reserve. He was also, as recently as 1980, the single largest individual shareholder of the bank, holding 1.7% of its shares. In 1989, 51 percent of the property, later increased to 80 percent, was sold to Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan. | |||
The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote in 2002 that Rockefeller "spent his life in the club of the ruling class and was loyal to members of the club, no matter what they did." He noted that Rockefeller had cut profitable deals with "oil-rich dictators", "Soviet party bosses" and "Chinese perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution". He published Memoirs in 2002, the only time a member of the Rockefeller family has written an autobiography. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017. | |||
The New York Times estimated in November 2006 that his total charitable donations amount to $900 million over his lifetime, a figure that was substantiated by a monograph on the family's overall benefactions, entitled The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Became Asst Regional Director, Office of Defense Health. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. | |||
He was noted for his wide-ranging political connections and foreign travel, in which he met with many foreign leaders. His fortune was estimated at $3.3 billion at the time of his death. Was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. | |||
His mother Abby was a daughter of Rhode Island U.S. He once dated Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. During his time abroad, Rockefeller briefly worked in the London branch of what was to become the Chase Manhattan Bank. | |||
After completing his studies in Chicago, he became secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia for eighteen months in a "dollar a year" public service position. Although the mayor pointed out to the press that Rockefeller was only one of 60 interns in the city government, his working space was the vacant office of the deputy mayor. During World War II he served in North Africa and France (he spoke fluent French) for military intelligence, setting up political and economic intelligence units. | |||
He served as a "Ritchie Boy" secret unit specially trained at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. For seven months, he served as an assistant military attaché at the American Embassy in Paris. During this period, he called on family contacts and Standard Oil executives for assistance. | |||
There he financed international trade in a number of commodities, such as coffee, sugar and metals. During his term as CEO, Chase spread internationally and became a central component of the world's financial system due to its global network of correspondent banks, the largest in the world. The study finds that: He was faulted for spending excessive amounts of time abroad, and during his tenure as CEO the bank had more troubled loans than any other major bank. | |||
Chase owned more New York City securities in the mid-1970s, when the city was nearing bankruptcy. At times he served as an unofficial emissary on high-level business. Among the foreign leaders he met were Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. | |||
President Jimmy Carter offered him the position of United States Secretary of the Treasury but he declined. Rockefeller was criticized for befriending foreign autocrats in order to expand Chase interests in their countries. Though a lifelong Republican and party contributor, he was a member of the moderate "Rockefeller Republicans" that arose out of the political ambitions and public policy stance of his brother Nelson. | |||
In Cary Reich's biography of his brother Nelson, a former CIA agent states that David was extensively briefed on covert intelligence operations by himself and other Agency division chiefs, under the direction of David's "friend and confidant", CIA director Allen Dulles. Rockefeller ensured that selected members of the fourth generation, known generically as the cousins, became directly involved in the family's institutions. In the 1980s, Rockefeller became embroiled in controversy over the mortgaging and sale of Rockefeller Center to Japanese interests. | |||
This action was criticized for surrendering a major U.S. It is located in Pocantico Hills, New York, on the land which was once part of the family estate and later, of the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. Who belonged to the organization Female Liberation, later forming a splinter group called Cell 16. | |||
An environmentalist and ecologist, she has been an active supporter of the women's liberation movement. | |||
In 1940, Rockefeller married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath, who died in 1996. In the 1970s, his wife, Margaret "Peggy" McGrath Rockefeller, had a successful cattle breeding operation there, and the center was established as a memorial for Peggy Rockefeller, who died in 1996. | |||
== Research notes == | == Research notes == | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 2 September 2026
| David Rockefeller | |
|---|---|
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 June 1915 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 20 March 2017 |
| Nativity | United States |
| Religion | Protestant |
| Known for | Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| ASN | 01112396 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Rank at Ritchie | Second Lieutenant |
| Camp Ritchie | Class 7 (15 April – 12 June 1943) |
| Section | 12 |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
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David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Biography
- Neva Rockefeller (born 1944 – physician; chairman of the United States advisory board of the international aid group Doctors Without Borders; trustee and chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. # Eileen Rockefeller (born February 26, 1952). Rockefeller was born in New York City, where he grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West 54th Street, the tallest private residence ever built in the city at the time.
Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
He Graduated with Certificate 1826. In 1936, Rockefeller graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where he worked as an editor on The Harvard Crimson. Rockefeller enlisted in the United States Army and entered Officer Candidate School in 1943.
David attended Student at Harvard University. He attended Student at University of Chicago. He also studied economics for a year at Harvard and then a year at the London School of Economics (LSE) under Friedrich von Hayek.
After returning to the United States to complete his graduate studies, he received a Ph.D. Rockefeller was acquainted with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Allen Dulles and his brother, Eisenhower administration Secretary of State John Foster Dulles—who was an in-law of the family—since his college years.
David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. From 1941 to 1942, Rockefeller was assistant regional director of the United States Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services. He was promoted to Captain in 1945.
He also knew and associated with the former CIA director Richard Helms as well as Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., a Chase Bank employee and former CIA agent whose first cousin, CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr., was involved in the Iran coup of 1953. He served in other positions and became president in 1960. The extended family also became involved in their own philanthropic organization, formed in 1967 and primarily established by third-generation members, called the Rockefeller Family Fund.
Kennedy's Senate seat after Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, a post Nelson also offered to their nephew John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV. He was both the chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980 and remained chairman until 1981. He named Kissinger to the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and consulted with him frequently, with the subjects including the Chase Bank's interests in Chile and the possibility of the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
In 1975 the bank was branded a "problem bank" by the Federal Reserve. He was also, as recently as 1980, the single largest individual shareholder of the bank, holding 1.7% of its shares. In 1989, 51 percent of the property, later increased to 80 percent, was sold to Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan.
The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote in 2002 that Rockefeller "spent his life in the club of the ruling class and was loyal to members of the club, no matter what they did." He noted that Rockefeller had cut profitable deals with "oil-rich dictators", "Soviet party bosses" and "Chinese perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution". He published Memoirs in 2002, the only time a member of the Rockefeller family has written an autobiography. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017.
The New York Times estimated in November 2006 that his total charitable donations amount to $900 million over his lifetime, a figure that was substantiated by a monograph on the family's overall benefactions, entitled The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Became Asst Regional Director, Office of Defense Health. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D.
He was noted for his wide-ranging political connections and foreign travel, in which he met with many foreign leaders. His fortune was estimated at $3.3 billion at the time of his death. Was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
His mother Abby was a daughter of Rhode Island U.S. He once dated Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. During his time abroad, Rockefeller briefly worked in the London branch of what was to become the Chase Manhattan Bank.
After completing his studies in Chicago, he became secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia for eighteen months in a "dollar a year" public service position. Although the mayor pointed out to the press that Rockefeller was only one of 60 interns in the city government, his working space was the vacant office of the deputy mayor. During World War II he served in North Africa and France (he spoke fluent French) for military intelligence, setting up political and economic intelligence units.
He served as a "Ritchie Boy" secret unit specially trained at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. For seven months, he served as an assistant military attaché at the American Embassy in Paris. During this period, he called on family contacts and Standard Oil executives for assistance.
There he financed international trade in a number of commodities, such as coffee, sugar and metals. During his term as CEO, Chase spread internationally and became a central component of the world's financial system due to its global network of correspondent banks, the largest in the world. The study finds that: He was faulted for spending excessive amounts of time abroad, and during his tenure as CEO the bank had more troubled loans than any other major bank.
Chase owned more New York City securities in the mid-1970s, when the city was nearing bankruptcy. At times he served as an unofficial emissary on high-level business. Among the foreign leaders he met were Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
President Jimmy Carter offered him the position of United States Secretary of the Treasury but he declined. Rockefeller was criticized for befriending foreign autocrats in order to expand Chase interests in their countries. Though a lifelong Republican and party contributor, he was a member of the moderate "Rockefeller Republicans" that arose out of the political ambitions and public policy stance of his brother Nelson.
In Cary Reich's biography of his brother Nelson, a former CIA agent states that David was extensively briefed on covert intelligence operations by himself and other Agency division chiefs, under the direction of David's "friend and confidant", CIA director Allen Dulles. Rockefeller ensured that selected members of the fourth generation, known generically as the cousins, became directly involved in the family's institutions. In the 1980s, Rockefeller became embroiled in controversy over the mortgaging and sale of Rockefeller Center to Japanese interests.
This action was criticized for surrendering a major U.S. It is located in Pocantico Hills, New York, on the land which was once part of the family estate and later, of the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. Who belonged to the organization Female Liberation, later forming a splinter group called Cell 16.
An environmentalist and ecologist, she has been an active supporter of the women's liberation movement.
In 1940, Rockefeller married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath, who died in 1996. In the 1970s, his wife, Margaret "Peggy" McGrath Rockefeller, had a successful cattle breeding operation there, and the center was established as a memorial for Peggy Rockefeller, who died in 1996.
Research notes
- Instructor; French
- Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; philanthropist
- Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides (source).
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Technical record
| Field | Imported value |
|---|---|
| Approx Age at Death | 102 |
| Class_ASN | 112396 |
| Class_Name | ROCKEFELLER, David |
| match_method | asn_partial_name_exact |
| row_source | both |
Timeline
- Born 12 June 1915 in New York City.
- Assigned to Allied Force HQ, Algiers.
Sources
- Wikipedia: David Rockefeller
- Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
- Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
- NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
- 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
- Dan Gross, Timeline of David Rockefeller for Camp Ritchie (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)
- Dan Gross, Timeline of Rockefeller, David for Camp Ritchie (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: DAVID ROCKEFELLER.doc)