David Rockefeller Jr.
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| Born | July 24, 1941 |
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David Rockefeller Margaret "Peggy" McGrath |
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David Rockefeller Jr. (born July 24, 1941) is an American sailor, philanthropist, and an active participant in nonprofit and environmental areas. He is the eldest son of David Rockefeller and Margaret "Peggy" McGrath. David Jr is a leading fourth-generation member (known as "the Cousins") of the prominent Rockefeller family, serving on many boards of the family's institutions. His siblings are: Abby, Richard, Peggy, Neva, and Eileen.
He attended the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He settled in the Boston area and pursued his interests in music and arts education.
He worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a number of years and served on the boards of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Public Radio.
In the late 1960s he helped finance an anti-establishment Boston weekly, The Real Paper, along with Mortimer Zuckerman—who was later to become a successful real estate developer and whose subsequent business partner in his real estate investment trust would be David Jr.'s own father.
He established the Citizens Participation Project in 1983, in an effort to reach the country's 80 million nonvoters that existed at that time.
Also in 1983, he headed a planning committee to draft a new strategy for the family's main philanthropic vehicle, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, set up in 1940. Their report recommended a one world perspective, focusing on issues of resources and global security, including arms control, international relations, economic development, trade and finance. Because of this effort, and close administrative involvement with the family office, Room 5600, it has been said he will take over leadership of the family upon his father's death.
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