Happy Rockefeller
Margaretta Large Fitler Murphy "Happy" Rockefeller (born June 9, 1926 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania , † May 19, 2015 in Tarrytown , New York ) was the widow of Nelson Rockefeller , the former Vice President of the USA .
Life
As a child, the great-great-granddaughter of George Gordon Meade , a general in the Union Army during the Civil War , was nicknamed "Happy" because of her cheerful nature. In 1945 she married James Slater Murphy, a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute . The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters. The marriage ended in divorce in April 1963.
Three months later, she married the then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had also been divorced from his first wife the year before. The couple's two sons were born in 1964 and 1967. With the appointment of her husband as US Vice President in December 1974, she became the second lady of the United States, which she remained until January 1977. In 1968 Andy Warhol portrayed Happy Rockefeller in his screen printing process.
Others
President George Bush made her a UN delegate in 1991 . She suffered from breast cancer , but had a successful operation in 1974. Two weeks earlier, Betty Ford had also been successfully treated for breast cancer, whose husband, President Gerald Ford, had nominated her husband to be Vice President at the same time.
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| SURNAME | Rockefeller, Happy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rockefeller, Margaretta Large Fitler Murphy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician's wife, wife of US Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th May 2015 |
| Place of death | Tarrytown , New York |