Mark Fitler Rockefeller (born January 26, 1967) is a fourth-generation member of the

Rockefeller family The Rockefeller family () is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brot ...

. He is the younger son of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908–1979) and

Happy Rockefeller Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (''née'' Fitler, formerly Murphy; June 9, 1926 – May 19, 2015) was a philanthropist and the second wife of the 49th governor of New York and 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller ...

(1926–2015). He is the grandson of American financer

John D. Rockefeller Jr. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in M ...

and the great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder

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. Rockefeller was chairman of the board of directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2010.

Early life

Rockefeller grew up at

Kykuit Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefelle ...

, the central mansion at his family's estate in Pocantico,

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, in New York State. He is an alumnus of the Buckley School,

Deerfield Academy Deerfield Academy is an elite coeducational preparatory school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a member of the Eight Schools Association, the Ten Schools Admis ...

(1985),

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

(BA 1989), and

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(MBA 1996). He played football,

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, and

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at Deerfield, and played football at Princeton as a walk-on.

Career

Rockefeller and his ex-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,

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, an organization founded in 1951 by his grandfather,

Rockefeller's older brother, Nelson Rockefeller Jr., has also served on its board. In a 2013 article about Federal farm subsidy programs, the ''

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'' reported that 1,500 affluent New Yorkers had received payments. Among them was Rockefeller, who received $342,634 in taxpayer money over the course of ten years from 2001 to 2011 for allowing farmland to return to its natural condition.

Personal life

In 1998, Rockefeller married Renee Anne Anisko (born 1968) at the Church of the Magdalene in Pocantico Hills. She has a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from

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. They have four children. They divorced in 2020.

References

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