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family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Henry Rockefeller (1778-1831) —
of Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
17, 1778.
Merchant;
member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1813-14.
Died in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
6, 1831 (age 52 years, 354
days).
Interment at Germantown
Reformed Cemetery, Germantown, N.Y.
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Simon S. Rockefeller (1804-1884) —
of Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1804.
Member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1827.
Died in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., June 7,
1884 (age 79 years, 319
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Crocker (1822-1888) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
16, 1822.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
banker;
member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1861-62; one of the builders of the
Central Pacific Railroad;
first president of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., August
14, 1888 (age 65 years, 333
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Edwin Henry Fitler (1825-1896) —
also known as Edwin H. Fitler —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Kensington (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
2, 1825.
Republican. Rope and
cordage manufacturer; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1872;
Republican Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1876
(voted for Rutherford
B. Hayes and William
A. Wheeler); mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1887-91; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1888.
German
ancestry.
Died in Torresdale, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 31,
1896 (age 70 years, 181
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Dexter Mason Ferry (1833-1907) —
also known as Dexter M. Ferry —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y., August
8, 1833.
Republican. Founder and president, D. M. Ferry seed
company; president, American Harrow
Company; director, Detroit Copper and
Brass Rolling Mills; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Michigan, 1892,
1904;
Michigan
Republican state chair, 1896-99.
Died, from heart
disease, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
10, 1907 (age 74 years, 94
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915) —
also known as Nelson W. Aldrich; "General Manager of
the United States" —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Foster, Providence
County, R.I., November
6, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; grocer;
director, Roger Williams Bank;
president, First National Bank of
Providence; trustee, Providence, Hartford and Fishkill Railroad;
organizer and president, United Traction
and Electric
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1872;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1875-77; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1876-77; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 1st District, 1879-81; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911; author of Aldrich-Vreeland
Currency Act and Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from an apoplectic
stroke, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1915 (age 73 years, 161
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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John Phillips Rockefeller (1845-1900) —
also known as John P. Rockefeller —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
2, 1845.
Republican. Ice
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1885.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
21, 1900 (age 54 years, 109
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Charles Beatty Alexander (1849-1927) —
also known as Charles B. Alexander —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director and counsel for Equitable Life insurance
company; director of the Middletown & Unionville Railroad,
the Hocking Valley Railroad,
and several banks;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916
(alternate), 1920;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1913-27.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1927 (age 77 years, 63
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Elon Huntington Hooker (1869-1938) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
23, 1869.
Progressive. Engineer;
founder and president, Hooker Electrochemical
Company; Progressive candidate for Presidential Elector for New York,
1912.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 10,
1938 (age 68 years, 168
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Dexter Mason Ferry Jr. (1873-1959) —
also known as Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
22, 1873.
Republican. President, Ferry-Morse Seed
Co.; president, Standard Accident Insurance
Co.; director, Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance
Co.; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1901-04; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1906-13; appointed 1906; mayor
of Grosse Pointe, Mich., 1938-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in 1959
(age about
85 years).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Lewis Kirby Rockefeller (1875-1948) —
also known as Lewis K. Rockefeller —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., November
25, 1875.
Republican. Accountant;
Deputy New York State Tax Commissioner, 1915-21; Deputy New York
State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, 1921-33; chair of
Columbia County Republican Party, 1933-40; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1937-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Canaan, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
18, 1948 (age 72 years, 298
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Sheldon Whitehouse (1883-1965) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
5, 1883.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Guatemala, 1930-33; Colombia, 1933-34.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1965
(age about
82 years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Episcopal Cemetery, Portsmouth, R.I.
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Richard Steere Aldrich (1884-1941) —
also known as Richard S. Aldrich —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
29, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1915-16; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, 1916,
1920
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1924;
member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1917-18; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1923-33; director,
Providence Journal newspaper,
Providence National Bank,
Providence Washington Insurance
Co.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., December
25, 1941 (age 57 years, 300
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974) —
also known as Winthrop W. Aldrich —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., November
2, 1885.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president, Equitable Trust
Company, 1929; president, Chase National Bank,
1930-34; chairman, 1934-53; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1953-57.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Bankers Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
25, 1974 (age 88 years, 115
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Mary Rockefeller (1907-1999) —
also known as Tod Rockefeller; Mary Todhunter
Clark —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 17,
1907.
First Lady of New York, 1959-62.
Female.
Member, Junior
League.
Died April
21, 1999 (age 91 years, 308
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) —
also known as Nelson A. Rockefeller;
"Rocky" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bar Harbor, Hancock
County, Maine, July 8,
1908.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); Governor of
New York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1960,
1964,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1974-77.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias.
Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died, from a massive heart
attack, in his office,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1979 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rockefeller
Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby (Aldrich) Rockefeller;
brother of Winthrop
Rockefeller; married, June 23,
1930, to Mary
Todhunter Clark; married, May 4,
1963, to Happy
Murphy (great-granddaughter of Edwin
Henry Fitler; third great-granddaughter of John
Sergeant; first cousin once removed of George
Brooke Roberts Jr.); nephew of Richard
Steere Aldrich and Winthrop
Williams Aldrich; uncle of John
Davison Rockefeller IV and Winthrop
Paul Rockefeller; grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and Nelson
Wilmarth Aldrich; first cousin four times removed of Simon
S. Rockefeller; first cousin five times removed of Henry
Rockefeller; second cousin of David Hunter McAlpin (who married
Nina
Underwood); second cousin thrice removed of John
Phillips Rockefeller; fourth cousin once removed of Lewis
Kirby Rockefeller. |
|  | Political families: Rockefeller
#1 family of New York City, New York; Rockefeller
#2 family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cross-reference: Stewart
G. Anderson — John
H. Terry |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
|  | Books about Nelson A. Rockefeller: Cary
Reich, The
Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller : Worlds to Conquer,
1908-1958 — Joseph H. Boyd, Oreos
and Dubonnet: Remembering Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller |
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Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973) —
of Morrilton, Conway
County, Ark.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1912.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of
Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1961; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Arkansas, 1964
(delegation chair), 1972
(delegation co-chair); Governor of
Arkansas, 1967-71; Republican Presidential Elector for Arkansas,
1972
(did not serve).
Baptist.
Member, Urban
League; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died of lung
cancer or pancreatic
cancer, Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., February
22, 1973 (age 60 years, 297
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Charles Harting Percy (1919-2011) —
also known as Charles H. Percy —
of Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; Wilmette, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., September
27, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; President
and CEO, Bell & Howell, 1949-63; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1964,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1964; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1967-85; defeated, 1984.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died September
17, 2011 (age 91 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Happy Rockefeller (1926-2015) —
also known as Margaretta Large Fitler; Happy
Murphy —
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., June 9,
1926.
First Lady of New York, 1963-73; Second Lady
of the United States, 1974-77.
Female.
Died in Pocantico Hills, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 19,
2015 (age 88 years, 344
days).
Interment at Rockefeller
Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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George Brooke Roberts Jr. (1930-2021) —
also known as George B. Roberts, Jr. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 25,
1930.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, 1979-81.
Episcopalian.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Cathedral Village nursing
home, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
3, 2021 (age 91 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Davison Rockefeller IV (b. 1937) —
also known as Jay Rockefeller —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1937.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1967-68;
secretary
of state of West Virginia, 1969-72; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1972
(alternate), 1976
(alternate), 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
president,
West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1973-75; Governor of
West Virginia, 1977-85; defeated, 1972; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1985-.
Presbyterian.
Member, Trilateral
Commission.
Still living as of 2024.
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Sharon Percy Rockefeller (b. 1944) —
also known as Sharon Percy —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
10, 1944.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from West
Virginia, 1976,
1996;
president and CEO of WETA public radio and
television in Washington, D.C.; director of PepsiCo (food and soft
drink maker).
Female.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mark Brandt Dayton (b. 1947) —
also known as Mark Dayton —
of Minnesota.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., January
26, 1947.
Democrat. Minnesota
state auditor, 1991-94; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2001-07; defeated
(Democratic-Farmer-Labor), 1982; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 2004;
Governor
of Minnesota, 2011-19; defeated in primary, 1998.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2019.
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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948-2006) —
also known as Win Paul Rockefeller —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
17, 1948.
Republican. Rancher; Arkansas
Republican state chair, 1994; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2006; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 2004.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Died, from a blood
disorder and complications of pneumonia,
in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., July 16,
2006 (age 57 years, 302
days).
Burial location unknown.
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