U.S. Vice Presidents: Nelson Rockefeller

Vice President Rockefeller...

• ...had both business and public-service experience.
• ...ran for the office of President three times (1960, 1964, & 1968).  
• ...didn't run for Vice-President, but was appointed to the office and had to be conformed by the Senate.
• ...died under mysterious circumstances.

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954. A grandson of billionaire John D. Rockefeller and a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family, he was a noted art collector and served as administrator of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City.

“I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.”

—Nelson Rockefeller 

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