Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)


Born
June 18, 1937, New York, New York
Political party
Democratic
Assumed office:
January 3, 1985
Religion
Presbyterian
Phone:
(202) 224-6472

John Davison Rockefeller IV, a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family; and the only Democrat in what has been traditionally a Republican dynasty.

He is also a great-grandson of Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, a nephew of David Rockefeller and Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, and the son-in-law of former Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois

Jay Rockefeller was Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985.

See also:
rockefeller.senate.gov
en.wikipedia.org

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