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Michael Clark Rockefeller (May 18, 1938; disappeared November 19, 1961) was a member of the Rockefeller family.He was the son of New York Governor and later U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a grandson of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr., and a great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr.
In the 1996 book The Wealthy 100, authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther placed John D. Rockefeller atop the list of the richest Americans in history, followed by Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor. [8] Bill Gates was the top living person, coming in fifth.
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
Rodman Clark Rockefeller: May 2, 1932– May 14, 2000 Barbara Ann Olson Father of: Meile Rockefeller (b. 1955) Peter Clark Rockefeller (b. 1957) Stuart Alexander Rockefeller (b. 1960) Michael Sorum Rockefeller (b. 1964) Manhattan, New York City, New York: Sascha von Metzler Ann Rockefeller: born 1934 Robert Pierson Mother of: Clare Marie ...
Learn all about the touching story behind the 2024 Rockefeller Christmas tree, and how donating the tree is honoring a late family member's life. ... Michael, wonder if Pauze might be "an angel or ...
It is the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to come from Massachusetts since 1959. “There’s a lot of people coming to town that are interested in this.
Dead Birds is a 1963 American documentary film by Robert Gardner about the ritual warfare cycle of the Dugum Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley in present-day Highland Papua province (then a part of Papua province known as Irian Jaya) on the western half of the island of New Guinea in Indonesia. [1]
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, earning his immense fortune after gaining control of 90 percent of American oil production in the late 1800s. The oil ...