David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation.He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from July 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. …

Early years. William Jr. was born in Richford, New York. He was the middle son of con artist William Avery Rockefeller Sr. and Eliza Davison. In addition to elder brother John, William Jr.'s siblings were Lucy, Mary, and twins Franklin (Frank) and Frances (who died young). He also had two elder half-sisters, Clorinda (who died young) and Cornelia, through his father's affairs with …

David Rockefeller (Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 12 de junio de 1915-Ibídem, 20 de marzo de 2017) [1] fue un banquero y hombre de negocios estadounidense de ascendencia judía, [2] [3] patriarca de la conocida familia Rockefeller, ya que fue el último hijo vivo de John D. Rockefeller Jr..Además, fue el nieto del multimillonario y magnate petrolero John D. Rockefeller, fundador …

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909 – the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed Harvard from a respected provincial college into America's preeminent research university. Theodore Roosevelt called …

William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II.He is regarded as the founding father of the …

Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (née Fitler, formerly Murphy; June 9, 1926 – May 19, 2015) was a philanthropist and the second wife of the 49th governor of New York and 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979). She was First Lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, and Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carnegie Corporation, the foundation was ranked as the 39th largest U.S. foundation by total giving as of 2015. By the end of 2016, …

John Davison Rockefeller (Richford, 8 juli 1839 – Ormond Beach (Florida), 23 mei 1937) was een Amerikaans zakenman, kapitalist en filantroop.Hij was een van de rijkste mensen aller tijden. Hij werd geboren als tweede van de zes kinderen van William Avery Rockefeller (1810-1906) en zijn vrouw Eliza Davison (1813-1889).

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator.A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its …

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (* 8.Juli 1839 in Richford, New York; † 23. Mai 1937 in Ormond Beach, Florida) war ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, erster Milliardär der Weltgeschichte (im Jahr 1916, in US-Dollar gerechnet) und gilt als der reichste Mensch der Neuzeit.. Rockefeller war Mitbegründer einer Erdölraffinerie, aus der 1870 die Standard Oil Company hervorging.