David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller (1915 to 2017) was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. The youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a grandson of the Standard Oil co-founder, he studied at Harvard, the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, where he earned a doctorate in economics. After wartime service in army intelligence he joined Chase National Bank in 1946, starting in its foreign department and building relationships with more than a thousand correspondent banks. He became president of the bank in 1960 and was both chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980. Known for wide political connections and foreign travel, he was the oldest living member of the family from 2004 until his death.