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David Rockefeller, (born June 12, 1915, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 20, 2017, Pocantico Hills, New York), American banker and philanthropist who was the youngest of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard University (1936), did graduate study in economics at Harvard and at the London School of ...

David Rockefeller was born on June 12, 1915, in New York City, the youngest of the six children of Abby Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He attended Lincoln School of Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York and graduated from Harvard University in 1936 with a B.S. degree in economics.

David Rockefeller, Jr., is a longstanding businessman and philanthropist. He has held many positions amongst Rockefeller-related entities, as well as in nonprofits that support the arts, education and the environment. Mr. Rockefeller previously served as a trustee and chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and was president of the Rockefeller ...

Prominent banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller Sr. was the family patriarch until his death in 2017. In 1960, when his brother Nelson Rockefeller was governor of New York, David Sr. successfully pressed for a repeal of a New York state law that restricted Chase Manhattan Bank from operating outside the city.

The Rockefellers—founders of the Standard Oil Company in 1870 and a wealth-management firm in 1882; philanthropists of vast generosity in both the arts and the sciences—are considered old ...