David Rockefeller Jr. (born July 24, 1941) is a philanthropist and an active participant in nonprofit and environmental areas. The eldest son of David Rockefeller, he is a leading fourth-generation member (known as "the Cousins") of the prominent Rockefeller family, serving on many boards of the family's institutions. His siblings are: Abby, Richard, Peggy Dulany, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin and Eileen Rockefeller Growald.
He attended the Phillips E...
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David Rockefeller Jr. (born July 24, 1941) is a philanthropist and an active participant in nonprofit and environmental areas. The eldest son of David Rockefeller, he is a leading fourth-generation member (known as "the Cousins") of the prominent Rockefeller family, serving on many boards of the family's institutions. His siblings are: Abby, Richard, Peggy Dulany, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin and Eileen Rockefeller Growald.
He attended the Phillips Exeter Academy at New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He settled in the Boston area and pursued his interests in music and arts education.
He worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a number of years and served on the boards of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Public Radio.
In the late 1960s he helped finance an anti-establishment Boston weekly, The Real Paper, along with Mortimer Zuckerman - who was later to become a successful real estate developer and whose subsequent business partner...
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