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David Rockefeller 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 Rock…
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business · American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017) · art collector · banker · autobiographer · statesperson · businessperson · entomologist · writer · entrepreneur · philanthropist · financier · also David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Sr., David Rockefeller Sr., Rockefeller
Born 12 June 1915 · Died 20 March 2017 · Q11239
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But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence.
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Bill Clinton (1998).
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Lead Stories rated the claim “David Rockefeller Breaks Record For Most Heart Transplants At Age 101” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “President Trump has purchased the Mount Desert Island estate of David Rockefeller.” False.
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Died 2017-03-20.
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At his home in Pocantico Hills, New York
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“But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence.”
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Snopes rated the claim “Billionaire David Rockefeller received his sixth heart transplant at the advanced age of 99.” False.
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Pledged $225 million to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund upon his death, the largest gift in the Fund's history
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Teamed up with former Goldman Sachs executives and others to form a fund-raising group based in Washington, Republicans Who Care, that supported moderate Republican candidates over more hardline contenders
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Gave $100 million to the Museum of Modern Art and $100 million to Rockefeller University, two of the most prominent family institutions; as well as $10 million to Harvard and $5 million to Colonial Williamsburg
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With his daughter Peggy Dulany, he established the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, a non-profit farm, education, and research center, with a high-end farm-to-table restaurant
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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
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The only time a member of the Rockefeller family has written an autobiography
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Rockefeller presided over the final sale of Rockefeller Center to Tishman Speyer Properties, along with the Crown family of Chicago, which ended the more than 70 years of direct family financial association with Rockefel
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Bill Clinton (1998).
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At a Council sponsored forum, Rockefeller proposed a "Western Hemisphere free trade area", which became the Free Trade Area of the Americas in a Miami summit in 1994
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Was selected as a leading member of the Russian-American Bankers Forum, an advisory group set up by the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to advise Russia on the modernization of its banking system, with th
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51 percent of the property, later increased to 80 percent, was sold to Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1988).
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The Rockefeller family mortgaged the property for $1
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Formed the Partnership for New York City, a not-for-profit membership organization of New York businessmen
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The bank was branded a "problem bank" by the Federal Reserve
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When an audit found that losses from bond trading had been understated
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Chase established the first branch of an American bank in Moscow, in the then Soviet Union
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As it afforded banking opportunities for the Chase Bank
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Declined an offer from his brother Nelson Rockefeller, then governor of New York, to appoint him to Robert F
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And primarily established by third-generation members, called the Rockefeller Family Fund
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Rockefeller and other businessmen formed the Council of the Americas to stimulate and support economic integration in the Americas
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Along with other American business figures such as Sol Linowitz, Rockefeller founded the non-profit International Executive Service Corps, which encourages developing nations to promote private enterprise
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And shifted significantly into consumer banking
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When Kissinger was appointed a director of a seminal Council on Foreign Relations study group on nuclear weapons, of which David Rockefeller was a member
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Had befriended William Bundy, a pivotal CIA analyst for nine years in the 1950s, who became the Agency liaison to the National Security Council, and a subsequent lifelong friend
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Margaret Dulany "Peggy" Rockefeller (born 1947) – founder of the Synergos Institute in 1986; board member of the Council on Foreign Relations; serves on the advisory committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
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Rockefeller joined the staff of the longtime family-associated Chase National Bank
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David Rockefeller Jr. (born July 24, 1941) – vice chairman, Rockefeller Family & Associates (the family office, Room 5600); chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services; Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation; former chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Rockefeller & Co., Inc., among many other family institutions.
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Rockefeller married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath, who died in 1996
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By the five brothers and their one sister
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– which was created when the Fund leased the area from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1991
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In 1940, Rockefeller married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath, who died in 1996.
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Rockefeller graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where he worked as an editor on The Harvard Crimson
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Born 1915-06-12.
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