The businessman and philanthropist died of congestive heart failure, the Rockefeller Foundation announced in a statement. He is the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and was the oldest living member of his generation in the Rockefeller family

menwongo:

The businessman and philanthropist died of congestive heart failure, the Rockefeller Foundation announced in a statement. He is the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and was the oldest living member of his generation in the Rockefeller family

Death is a no respecter of any man.

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DAramis:

Death is a no respecter of any man.

Very true.
How I wish Nigerian politicians are seeing this your post.

Wao. This is what we call long life and prosperity. RIP

One capitalist down.

Wealthiest man after Solomon

Did Nigeria ever benefit from his Billions?

orisa37:
Did Nigeria ever benefit from his Billions?

You can copy his business lifestyle if it's suits you. He must not dash you money for you to benefit from him!

David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world for even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on Monday morning at his home in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He was 101.

A family spokesman, Fraser P. Seitel, confirmed the death.

Chase Manhattan had long been known as the Rockefeller bank, although the family never owned more than 5 percent of its shares. But Mr. Rockefeller was more than a steward. As chairman and chief executive throughout the 1970s, he made it “David’s bank,” as many called it, expanding its operations internationally.


His stature was greater than any corporate title might convey, however. His influence was felt in Washington and foreign capitals, in the corridors of New York City government, in art museums, in great universities and in public schools.


Mr. Rockefeller could well be the last of a less and less visible family to have cut so imposing a figure on the world stage. As a peripatetic advocate of the economic interests of the United States and of his own bank, he was a force in global financial affairs and in his country’s foreign policy. He was received in foreign capitals with the honors accorded a chief of state.

He was the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the tycoon who founded the Standard Oil Company in the 19th century and built a fortune that made him America’s first billionaire and his family one of the richest and most powerful in the nation’s history.

As an heir to that legacy, David Rockefeller lived all his life in baronial splendor and privilege, whether in Manhattan (when he was a boy, he and his brothers would roller skate along Fifth Avenue trailed by a limousine in case they grew tired) or at his magnificent country estates.

Imbued with the understated manners of the East Coast elite, he loomed large in the upper reaches of a New York social world of glittering black-tie galas. His philanthropy was monumental, and so was his art collection, a museumlike repository of some 15,000 pieces, many of them masterpieces, some lining the walls of his offices 56 floors above the streets at Rockefeller Center, to which he repaired, robust and active, well into his 90s.

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