:Mark Rockefeller
{{Short description|American family heir (born 1967)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mark Rockefeller
| birthname = Mark Fitler Rockefeller
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|1|26}}
| education = Deerfield Academy
| alma_mater = Princeton University (BA)
Harvard University (MBA)
| parents = Nelson Rockefeller
Margaretta "Happy" Fitler
| spouse = {{marriage|Renee Anne Anisko|1998|2020|end=div}}
| children = 4
| relatives = See Rockefeller family
}}
Mark Fitler Rockefeller (born January 26, 1967) is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is the younger son of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908–1979) and former Second Lady Happy Rockefeller (1926–2015). Through his father, Rockefeller is a grandson of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was chairman of the board of directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2010.[http://www.nfwf.org/AM/PrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=Board_of_Directors&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=16089&FuseFlag=1 2010 Board of Directors.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625234051/http://www.nfwf.org/AM/PrinterTemplate.cfm?TEMPLATE=%2FCM%2FHTMLDisplay.cfm&SECTION=Board_of_Directors&CONTENTID=16089&FUSEFLAG=1 |date=2010-06-25 }} National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
Early life
Rockefeller grew up at Kykuit, the central mansion on his family's estate in Pocantico, Westchester County, in New York State. He is an alumnus of the Buckley School, Deerfield Academy (1985), Princeton University (BA 1989), and Harvard University (MBA 1996).{{cite web |url=http://www.sponsordirect.com/company/management.aspx |title=About Sponsor Direct - Management Team |publisher=Sponsor Direct, LLC |access-date=24 January 2010}} He played football, basketball, and baseball at Deerfield, and played football at Princeton, where in 1988 he was considered one of the Ivy League's best tight ends.{{cite news |title=College Football Notebook; Many Points Likely at Arsmy |author=William N. Wallace |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 October 1988 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/15/sports/college-football-notebook-many-points-likely-at-army.html?pagewanted=1 |access-date=}}
Career
Rockefeller and his former wife own South Fork Lodge and South Fork Outfitters, both in Swan Valley, Idaho. Previously, he was an associate in the Acquisition Finance Group at Chase Securities, Inc.
In 1999 he was elected chairman of the non-profit organization, Historic Hudson Valley, founded by his grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1951. Mark Rockefeller's older brother, Nelson Rockefeller Jr., has also served on its board.{{cite web |url=http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/1299rock.htm |title=Rockefeller Named Chairman of Historic Hudson Valley |date=December 1999 |work=Historic Hudson River Towns – official website |publisher=Half Moon Press |access-date=24 January 2010}}
In a 2013 article about federal farm subsidy programs, the New York Post reported that 1,500 affluent New Yorkers had received payments. Among them was Rockefeller, who received $342,634 in farm subsidies over the course of ten years from 2001 to 2011 for allowing farmland to return to its natural condition.{{cite web |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/load_of_crop_yGQczfSyxdqj1R8bsNJlBJ |title=A load of crop |date=Jan 2013 |work= NYPost |publisher=Ny Post |access-date=24 January 2013}}
Personal life
In 1998, Rockefeller married Renee Anne Anisko (b. 1968) at the Church of the Magdalene in Pocantico Hills. She has a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.{{cite news |title=Weddings; Renee Anisko, Mark Rockefeller |newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 May 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/style/weddings-renee-anisko-mark-rockefeller.html?pagewanted=1 |access-date=}} They have four children.{{cite news|url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/t-magazine/the-reinvention-of-beige.html|title=The Reinvention of Beige|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2013-12-05|last1=Netto|first1=David}} They divorced in 2020.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
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Category:Children of Nelson Rockefeller
Category:Deerfield Academy alumni
Category:Princeton Tigers football players
Category:American philanthropists
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