Mary Rockefeller
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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 Roberts, daughter of 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 the twins Michael Clark Rockefeller and Mary Rockefeller.
In 1962, shortly after the 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.
[edit] Further reading
Reich, Cary. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908 - 1958, New York: Doubleday, 1996.
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| Preceded by Marie Harriman |
First Lady of New York 1959–1961 |
Succeeded by Margaretta Rockefeller |
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