Former West Virginia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller has died at the age of 89.
Rockefeller died at his home in Washington on Nov. 5, Mary Stewart, vice president for external affairs at WETA, the public broadcasting station where Rockefeller’s wife, Sharon, is president and CEO, told The Associated Press.
Rockefeller was born in New York City and was the great-grandson of Standard Oil Co. founder John Rockefeller, who died a month before Jay Rockefeller’s birth. His father, John D. Rockefeller III, was a philanthropist, while his Uncles Winthrop and Nelson Rockefeller were Republican governors of Arkansas and New York, respectively. Another uncle, David Rockefeller, was in charge of Chase Manhattan Bank….