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Biography of David Rockefeller
Name: David Rockefeller
Birth Date: June 12, 1915
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: banker
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller (born 1915), son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and became one of the most prominent bankers in the world.David Rockefeller, the fifth and youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was born in New York City on June 12, 1915. He received his elementary and secondary education at the Lincoln School of Columbia University's Teachers College. He graduated from Harvard University in 1936 with a B.S. in English history and literature and later did post-graduate work in economics at Harvard and at the London School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1940. Rockefeller's doctoral dissertation, Unused Resources and Economic Waste, was published in 1941 by the University of Chicago Press.In September 1940 Rockefeller married Margaret McGrath, and the couple eventually had six children: David, Abby, Neva, Margaret, Richard, and Eileen. To …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…time." He also stated that he "would like to be thought of as having seen that there was an important role for the private sector in world affairs and cooperating with governments for the benefit of both sides."He has received honorary degrees from several universities and in 1994 was awarded the Hadrian Award of the World Mathematics Fund. In 1999, he sold the San Francisco Embarcadero Center for close to one billion dollars Associated Organizations Further Reading Rockefeller's own autobiography Memoirs provides an excellent starting point for gathering information on his life (2002). There is only one published biography, by William Hoffman, David (1971), but several studies of the Rockefeller family contain information on David Rockefeller, the best of which is Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976). Another informative source is a profile from the New York Times, "Last of the Big Time Rockefellers: A Profile of David Rockefeller (12/10/95).
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