Negative taken of Rockefeller with crowd of African Americans from the pamphlet "Building for the People. A Factual Report of Progress: the Rockefeller Administration" produced by Rockefeller for Governor Committee, Little Rock, Ark., ca. 1968. Winthrop Rockefeller was born on May 1, 1912, in New York City, son of John D. (Jr.) and Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller. Educated at the Lincoln School of Columbia University Teachers College, New York City; at the Loomis School, Windsor Connecticut, and at Yale University, he took his first job as an apprentice roughneck in the oil fields of Texas in 1936. He enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army in January of 1941, attended Officer Candidate School. He served as a machine-gun instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 1942, he was promoted to captain and in 1943 to major. He served in the South Pacific and was wounded in the invasion of Okinawa. He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart. He moved to Arkansas in 1953. Following the war, he returned to New York City where he worked for a few years at Socony. In 1948, he married Barbara Sears and later divorced in 1953. He developed Winrock Farms on 900 acres he purchased on Petit Jean Mountain in the Arkansas River Valley. By 1966 his farming holdings included over 24,587 acres in Arkansas. He established Winrock Enterprises and founded Winrock Realty Company, Pleasant Valley, Inc., and the Arkansas Realty Company, which built the first skyscraper in Little Rock, named the Tower Building. He was a supporter of the National Urban League, Rockwin Fund, the Arkansas Arts Center, scholarships and grants. He was the first chairman of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas and served for four years from 1967 to 1971. Rockefeller was the first Republican elected governor of Arkansas since the Civil War. Winthrop Rockefeller died in Palm Springs, Riverside County, California on Feb. 22, 1973.
