Mark Rockefeller

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Mark Fitler Rockefeller (born 1967) is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is the younger son of former U.S. Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979) and Happy Rockefeller. Rockefeller was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2010.[1]

Rockefeller was raised at Kykuit, the central mansion at the Pocantico family estate in Westchester County in New York State. He is an alum of the Buckley School, Deerfield Academy, and Princeton University, and he received an M.B.A. from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.[2] He played football, basketball, and baseball at Deerfield, and played football at Princeton as a walk-on.[3]

Rockefeller and his wife own South Fork Properties (South Fork Lodge, situated an hour from Jackson Hole) and South Fork Outfitters, both in Swan Valley, Idaho.[4] He has served as an associate in the Acquisition Finance Group at Chase Securities, Inc. and was elected chairman of the non-profit organization, Historic Hudson Valley, in November 1999.[2] Historic Hudson Valley was founded in 1951 as Sleepy Hollow Restorations by his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Rockefeller's older brother, Nelson Rockefeller Jr., also serves on its Board.[5]

In 1998 he married Renee Anne Anisko at the Church of the Magdalene in Pocantico Hills. Renee (born 1968) received a law degree cum laude from Temple University.[4]

In 2013 it was revealed by the New York Post that Rockefeller received up to $342,634 in taxpayer money for owning unused farmland.[6] Will own 63 square kilometres of land (15,500 acres) in Australia as of 2017 based by David Rockefeller's will .

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  1. 2010 Board of Directors. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
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