Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (June 17, 1907 – April 21, 1999) was the first wife of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller a Governor of New York who served, after their divorce, as 41st Vice President of the United States.
Known as Tod to her family, she was born in Philadelphia. Her father, Percy Hamilton Clark, was an attorney and noted cricketer, and her mother was Elizabeth Williams Roberts, daughter of George B. Roberts, a former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
She married Nelson Rockefeller on June 23, 1930, at St. Asaph's Episcopal Church in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, with a reception at the home of her parents, a few days after Nelson had graduated from Dartmouth College. They had five children: Rodman Rockefeller, Anne Rockefeller, Steven C. Rockefeller, and twins Michael Clark Rockefeller and Mary Rockefeller.
In 1962, shortly after socialite Happy Murphy resigned from Governor Rockefeller's staff, Tod Rockefeller divorced her husband. A year later, Happy Murphy became the governor's second wife.
Mary Todhunter Rockefeller died in New York City in 1999 at the age of 91.[1]
Further reading
- Reich, Cary. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908 - 1958, New York: Doubleday, 1996.
References
- ^ Pace, Eric (22 April 1999), "Mary C. Rockefeller, Governor's Former Wife, Dead at 91", The New York Times (New York): C23, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/22/nyregion/mary-c-rockefeller-governor-s-former-wife-dead-at-91.html?pagewanted=all, retrieved 17 December 2009
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| Preceded by Marie Harriman |
First Lady of New York 1959–1961 |
Succeeded by Margaretta Rockefeller |
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