Nelson W. Aldrich
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was
Nelson W. Aldrich
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Reformers hated and feared Senator Aldrich for killing reforms disliked by big business. 1906 Puck cartoon.
Taft tries to get progressive ideas into Aldrich
Nelson Rockefeller
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family,
Nelson W. Aldrich
…married American financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. who was the son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. His descendants, including namesake Nelson A. Rockefeller, became powerful figures in American politics and banking. Aldrich was born at Burgess Farm in Foster, Rhode Island, into a middle-class family purportedly…
Official portrait, 1975
Rockefeller (top row, third from right) with other members of the Dartmouth Pictorial staff, 1928
Rockefeller as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in 1940
Rockefeller, Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, makes a presentation on a proposed public/private health reinsurance program in 1954.