Mary Rockefeller

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Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (June 17, 1907 – April 21, 1999) was the first wife of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the 49th governor of New York and the 41st vice president of the United States. She served as the first lady of New York from 1959 until the Rockefellers' divorce in March 1962. After their divorce, Nelson Rockefeller remained governor and would later become the 41st vice president of the United States, serving under President Gerald Ford.

Early lifeEdit

Known as Tod to her family, Mary was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on June 17, 1907.<ref name="MCRObit1999"/> She was the daughter of Elizabeth Williams (née Roberts) Clark and Percy Hamilton Clark, an attorney and noted cricketer. Among her siblings were two brothers, John R. Clark and Dr. Thomas W. Clark.<ref name="MCRObit1999"/>

Her maternal grandfather was George B. Roberts, a former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.<ref name="MCRObit1999"/>

Tod attended the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia and studied at the Sorbonne in France, but didn't graduate, instead returning to Philadelphia where she made her debut and became active in the Junior League.<ref name="MCRObit1999"/>

CareerEdit

In 1932, Mary began volunteering at the Bellevue School of Nursing in Manhattan, which was administered with Bellevue Hospital. She served on the school's board for many years, including a stint as the board president.<ref name="MCRObit1999"/>

Personal lifeEdit

On June 23, 1930, Mary married Nelson Rockefeller, a grandson of John D. Rockefeller, 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:<ref>Reich, Cary. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908 - 1958, New York: Doubleday, 1996.</ref><ref name="1999Notice">Template:Cite news</ref>

Rodman Clark Rockefeller (1932–2000)<ref name="RRObit2000">Template:Cite news</ref>
Ann Rockefeller Roberts (1934–2024),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a founder and president of the Fund of the Four Directions.<ref name="abbeville">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Steven Clark Rockefeller (b. 1936), a former dean of Middlebury College.<ref name="Teltsch1984">Template:Cite news</ref>
Mary Rockefeller Callard (b. 1938), Michael's twin.<ref name="Berger1995">Template:Cite news</ref>
Michael Clark Rockefeller (1938–1961), who disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea.<ref name=SI>Template:Cite news</ref>

Mary divorced her husband on March 16, 1962 in Reno, Nevada on grounds of extreme mental cruelty.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A year later, "Happy" Murphy became the governor's second wife.

She died at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1999 at the age of 91.<ref name="MCRObit1999">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="MCRChicTrib">Template:Cite news</ref>

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