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David Rockefeller (1915–2017) was an American banker, writer, and philanthropist from one of the wealthiest families in U.S. history. The youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., he was the last surviving grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. Born and raised in New York, he studied at Harvard (A.B., 1936), the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1940).