He won an Olympic rowing title for the United States,[1] then became president of what eventually became Citigroup.

He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a member of the board of overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

That same year Rockefeller captained a crew of Yale teammates that included Benjamin Spock.

[2] Rockefeller lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, in a 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m2) brick Georgian mansion, built in 1929, with 11 bedrooms and 16 marble bathrooms on four levels.

[14] At the time of his death, Rockefeller had four children, fourteen grandchildren, thirty-seven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-granddaughter.