Biography of NELSON ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER
ROCKEFELLER, Nelson Aldrich, (grandson of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich and uncle of
John D. Rockefeller IV), a Vice President of the United States; born in Bar
Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, July 8, 1908; attended Lincoln School of
Teachers' College at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1926; graduated,
Dartmouth College 1930; engaged in oil, real estate, and banking businesses,
and family philanthropic activities; served variously as trustee, treasurer,
president, chairman of the board of Museum of Modern Art in New York City
1932-1975; director, Office of Inter-American Affairs 1940-1944; Assistant
Secretary of State for Latin-American Affairs 1944-1945; returned to family
philanthropic activities and helped establish American International
Association; member and chairman of President's Advisory Committee on
Government Organization 1953-1958; Under Secretary of the United States
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953-1954; Special Assistant to
the President for Foreign Affairs 1954-1955; Governor of New York 1959-1973;
unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964,
1968, and 1972; nominated by President Gerald R. Ford on August 20, 1974,
under the provisions of the twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution, to be
the Forty-first Vice President of the United States; confirmed by the Congress
and took the oath of office on December 19, 1974, and served until January 20,
1977, when the term ended; returned to family philanthropic activities and
worked extensively on his art collection in New York, N.Y., where he died
January 26, 1979; cremated; ashes interred at the family estate, Pocantico
Hills, N.Y.
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