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.infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">John D. Rockefeller III</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Davison_Rockefeller_III.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/John_Davison_Rockefeller_III.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="240" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="240" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Davison Rockefeller III</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1906-03-21</span>)</span>March 21, 1906<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City, New York">New York City, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 10, 1978<span style="display:none">(1978-07-10)</span> (aged 72)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_New_York" title="Mount Pleasant, New York">Mount Pleasant, New York</a>, U.S.</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Rockefeller Family Cemetery<br /><a href="/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow,_New_York" title="Sleepy Hollow, New York">Sleepy Hollow, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">(B.S.)</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output 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ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller" title="Jay Rockefeller">John IV</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hope_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Hope Aldrich Rockefeller">Hope</a></li><li>Sandra</li><li><a href="/wiki/Alida_Rockefeller_Messinger" title="Alida Rockefeller Messinger">Alida</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_Jr." title="John D. Rockefeller Jr.">John Davison Rockefeller Jr.</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Abby Aldrich Rockefeller">Abigail Greene Aldrich</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data">See <a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_family" title="Rockefeller family">Rockefeller family</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Davison Rockefeller III</b> (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_Jr." title="John D. Rockefeller Jr.">John D. Rockefeller Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Abby Aldrich Rockefeller">Abby Aldrich Rockefeller</a> as well as a grandson of <a href="/wiki/Standard_Oil" title="Standard Oil">Standard Oil</a> co-founder <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller">John D. Rockefeller</a>. He was engaged in a wide range of philanthropic projects, many of which his family had launched, as well as supporting organizations related to East Asian affairs. Rockefeller was also a major supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Population_Council" title="Population Council">Population Council</a>, and the committee that created the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a> in Manhattan. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On March 21, 1906, John Davison Rockefeller III was born in New York City, New York. His parents were <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_Jr." title="John D. Rockefeller Jr.">John Davison Rockefeller Jr.</a> (1874–1960) and <a href="/wiki/Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Abby Aldrich Rockefeller">Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich</a> (1874–1948), philanthropists. He had four younger brothers, <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller" title="Winthrop Rockefeller">Winthrop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laurance_Rockefeller" title="Laurance Rockefeller">Laurance</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Rockefeller" title="David Rockefeller">David</a>, and an elder sister, <a href="/wiki/Abby_Rockefeller_Mauz%C3%A9" title="Abby Rockefeller Mauzé">Abby</a>. Through his father, he was a grandson of <a href="/wiki/Standard_Oil" title="Standard Oil">Standard Oil</a> co-founder <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller">John Davison Rockefeller Sr.</a> and schoolteacher <a href="/wiki/Laura_Spelman_Rockefeller" title="Laura Spelman Rockefeller">Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman</a>. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Senator <a href="/wiki/Nelson_W._Aldrich" title="Nelson W. Aldrich">Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich</a> and Abigail Pearce Truman "Abby" Chapman. He received his preparatory education at the <a href="/wiki/Browning_School" title="Browning School">Browning School</a> in New York City and the <a href="/wiki/Loomis_Chaffee_School" title="Loomis Chaffee School">Loomis Chaffee School</a>, Windsor, Connecticut, in 1925. He went to <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> where he received high honors in economics and graduated in 1929 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, choosing industrial relations as the subject of his senior thesis. His interest in industrial relations stemmed from the family's role in the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre" title="Ludlow Massacre">Ludlow Massacre</a>, in which strikebreakers and security guards killed women and children of miners striking against the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Rockefeller's father worked to restore the family's public reputation by championing industrial relations and the work of <a href="/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King" title="William Lyon Mackenzie King">William Lyon Mackenzie King</a>, a pioneer in the field. </p><p>Commencing a lifelong commitment to international relations, he undertook a world tour after graduating from college, which concluded with assignments for the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Pacific_Relations" title="Institute of Pacific Relations">Institute of Pacific Relations</a> conference in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Institutional_positions/activities"><span id="Institutional_positions.2Factivities"></span>Institutional positions/activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Institutional positions/activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John III was the next Rockefeller manager for all family undertakings of social relevance. Since 1929, in total he sat on twenty boards of various institutions, most of which were family-related. The more notable of these were: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_University" title="Rockefeller University">Rockefeller University</a> – then the <i>Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research</i> (established by Senior);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg" title="Colonial Williamsburg">Colonial Williamsburg</a> (John Jr., Abby);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Church" title="Riverside Church">Riverside Church</a> (John Jr.);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_House_of_New_York" title="International House of New York">International House of New York</a> (John Jr.);</li> <li>General Education Board – later the <i>International Education Board</i> (Senior);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Medical_Board" title="China Medical Board">China Medical Board</a> (John Sr., John Jr.);</li> <li>Bureau of Social Hygiene (John Jr.);</li> <li>Industrial Relations Counselors (John Jr.).</li></ul> <p>John III was at one time a member of the <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Policy_Association" title="Foreign Policy Association">Foreign Policy Association</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Pacific_Relations" title="Institute of Pacific Relations">Institute of Pacific Relations</a>, as well as being on the board of directors of <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>. In late 1950, he accompanied <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">secretary of state</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles" title="John Foster Dulles">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a> on a trip to Japan to conclude a peace treaty, during which time he consulted with many Japanese leaders in practically every important sphere of that country's life.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a prominent third-generation family philanthropist in his own right and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Asia_Society" title="Asia Society">Asia Society</a>, the major institution he established in 1956 to foster greater cooperation between Asia and the United States. He also founded the <a href="/wiki/Population_Council" title="Population Council">Population Council</a> in 1952, and a reconstituted <a href="/wiki/Japan_Society_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan Society of New York">Japan Society</a>. In addition, he set up the United Negro College Fund for the ongoing education of African Americans, carrying on the family tradition in this area with his grandfather's funding of the education of black women at <a href="/wiki/Spelman_College" title="Spelman College">Spelman College</a> in Atlanta. </p><p>He was on his father's Advisory Committee in the <a href="/wiki/Family_office" title="Family office">family office</a>, Room 5600. He was also president of the family's principal philanthropy run by family members, the <a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Brothers_Fund" title="Rockefeller Brothers Fund">Rockefeller Brothers Fund</a>, from its inception in 1940 to 1956. In 1929, he joined the family's renowned <a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation" title="Rockefeller Foundation">Rockefeller Foundation</a>; elected to the board in 1931 he subsequently became chairman of this major philanthropic organization for twenty years and was responsible for changing the focus of the institution. </p><p>The principal philanthropic institution he created was the JDR III Fund in 1963, its major program being the Asian Cultural Program, created in 1967 to encourage East-West cultural exchange. The Fund was wound-up upon his death in 1979, but the Cultural Program continued as the Asian Cultural Council, which has provided grant assistance to more than 4,000 Asians and Americans in the area of the arts. Funding for its programs is derived from a combination of endowment income and contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations in the United States and Asia. </p><p>In the mid-1950s, John III assumed the leadership of the Exploratory Committee for a Musical Arts Center, a committee of civic leaders who were working to create what would become <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>. He was the key figure in the fund-raising efforts and in forging a consensus among the civic leaders and others who were essential to its success. The Center itself was built over a period from 1959 to 1969. He was its first president, commencing in 1956, and he became its chairman in 1961. He was chairman until 1970 when he was duly elected honorary chairman.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1960s, Rockefeller III was responsible for the creation of the Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy (usually known as the Peterson Commission, headed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_G._Peterson" title="Peter G. Peterson">Peter G. Peterson</a>) and the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs (usually known as the Filer Commission). He established the Rockefeller Public Service Awards in 1958. In 1959, he received <a href="/wiki/The_Hundred_Year_Association_of_New_York" title="The Hundred Year Association of New York">The Hundred Year Association of New York</a>'s Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York". In 1976, he received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Awards_for_Public_Service" title="Jefferson Awards for Public Service">Jefferson Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rockefeller III was chairman of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, which was created to provide recommendations to the United States government regarding population growth and its social consequences. The Commission was established by Congress in 1970 and submitted its final recommendations in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Posthumous_honors">Posthumous honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Posthumous honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_College" title="Rockefeller College">Rockefeller College</a> at Princeton University was named in his honor in 1982. </p><p>The John D. Rockefeller III National Tournament of Elementary School State Champions, an annual national-championship chess tournament run by <a href="/wiki/US_Chess" class="mw-redirect" title="US Chess">US Chess</a>, was named in his honor in 2020. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 11, 1932, he married the socially connected <a href="/wiki/Blanchette_Ferry_Rockefeller" title="Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller">Blanchette Ferry Hooker</a> (1909–1992), who was to serve as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Asian_Cultural_Council" title="Asian Cultural Council">Asian Cultural Council</a> from 1980 to 1990, and who established the Blanchette H. Rockefeller Fellowship Fund, in Japan. They had one son and three daughters: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller" title="Jay Rockefeller">John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV</a> – a former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> and a former two-term <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_West_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of West Virginia">governor</a> of that state</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hope_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Hope Aldrich Rockefeller">Hope Aldrich Rockefeller</a></li> <li>Sandra Ferry Rockefeller</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alida_Rockefeller_Messinger" title="Alida Rockefeller Messinger">Alida Ferry Rockefeller</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rockefeller was killed in an automobile accident in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_New_York" title="Mount Pleasant, New York">Mount Pleasant, New York</a> (near the <a href="/wiki/Kykuit" title="Kykuit">Rockefeller family estate</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pocantico_Hills,_New_York" title="Pocantico Hills, New York">Pocantico</a>), on July 10, 1978, at the age of 72.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried at the Rockefeller Family Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow,_New_York" title="Sleepy Hollow, New York">Sleepy Hollow, New York</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_family" title="Rockefeller family">Rockefeller family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation" title="Rockefeller Foundation">Rockefeller Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_University" title="Rockefeller University">Rockefeller University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Brothers_Fund" title="Rockefeller Brothers Fund">Rockefeller Brothers Fund</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090221104044/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737976,00.html?iid=chix-digg">"INTERNATIONAL: Pacific Parley"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, November 11, 1929.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, <i>The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family</i>, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988 (pp.502–510)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180828154644/http://rockarch.org/bio/jdr3.php">"Rockefeller Archive Center biography"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rockarch.org/bio/jdr3.php">the original</a> on 2018-08-28<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-05-12</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Rockefeller+Archive+Center+biography&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rockarch.org%2Fbio%2Fjdr3.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+D.+Rockefeller+III" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101124043935/http://jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national">"National Winners | public service awards | Jefferson Awards.org"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national">the original</a> on 2010-11-24<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-08-05</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Winners+%26%23124%3B+public+service+awards+%26%23124%3B+Jefferson+Awards.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeffersonawards.org%2Fpastwinners%2Fnational&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+D.+Rockefeller+III" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015007261855"><i>Population and the American future; the report. United States</i></a>. For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1972. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fmdp.39015007261855">2027/mdp.39015007261855</a> – via HathiTrust Digital Library.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Population+and+the+American+future%3B+the+report.+United+States.&rft.pub=For+sale+by+the+Supt.+of+Docs.%2C+U.S.+Govt.+Print.+Off.&rft.date=1972&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Fmdp.39015007261855&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Fmdp.39015007261855&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+D.+Rockefeller+III" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/11/archives/new-jersey-pages-john-d-rockefeller-3d-is-killed-in-auto-collision.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/11/archives/new-jersey-pages-john-d-rockefeller-3d-is-killed-in-auto-collision.html</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hall, Peter Dobkin. <i>Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.</li> <li>Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. <i>The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family</i>. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-18936-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-18936-4">0-684-18936-4</a>.</li> <li>Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. <i>The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private</i>. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-19364-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-19364-7">0-684-19364-7</a>.</li> <li>Marcus, George E., & Hall, Peter Dobkin. <i>Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America.</i> Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.</li> <li>Rockefeller, David. <i>Memoirs</i>. New York: Random House, 2002. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-40588-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-40588-7">0-679-40588-7</a>.</li> <li>Young, Edgar B. <i>Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution</i>. New York: New York University Press, 1980.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D._Rockefeller_III&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:John_D._Rockefeller_III" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:John D. 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Douglas Dillon">C. Douglas Dillon</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New title</b> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Asia_Society" title="Asia Society">President of the Asia Society</a> </b><br />1956–1964 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Todd_Young" title="Kenneth Todd Young">Kenneth T. Young</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Grayson_L._Kirk" title="Grayson L. Kirk">Grayson L. Kirk</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Chairman of the Asia Society </b><br />1964–1974 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Ball" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. 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Rockefeller Jr.">John Davison Rockefeller Jr.</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Abby Aldrich Rockefeller">Abigail Greene Aldrich</a><br /><a href="/wiki/William_Goodsell_Rockefeller" title="William Goodsell Rockefeller">William Goodsell Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Avery_Rockefeller" title="Percy Avery Rockefeller">Percy Avery Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Rockefeller_Dodge" title="Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge">Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Hartley_Dodge_Sr." title="Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.">Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of <b>Elizabeth Rockefeller<br />children of Alta Rockefeller<br />children of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Rockefeller_Strong" title="Margaret Rockefeller Strong">Margaret Rockefeller Strong</a><br /><a href="/wiki/John_Rockefeller_Prentice" title="John Rockefeller Prentice">John Rockefeller Prentice</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Abby_Rockefeller_Mauz%C3%A9" title="Abby Rockefeller Mauzé">Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Jean_Mauz%C3%A9" title="Jean Mauzé">Jean Mauzé</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">John Davison Rockefeller III</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Blanchette_Ferry_Rockefeller" title="Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller">Blanchette Ferry Hooker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a> (m. 1st) <a href="/wiki/Mary_Rockefeller" title="Mary Rockefeller">Mary Todhunter Clark</a> (m. 2nd) <a href="/wiki/Happy_Rockefeller" title="Happy Rockefeller">Margaretta Large Fitler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurance_Rockefeller" title="Laurance Rockefeller">Laurance Spelman Rockefeller</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Mary_French_Rockefeller" title="Mary French Rockefeller">Mary French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller" title="Winthrop Rockefeller">Winthrop Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Rockefeller" title="David Rockefeller">David Rockefeller</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Rockefeller" title="Margaret Rockefeller">Margaret Rockefeller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of William Goodsell Rockefeller <br />children of Percy Avery Rockefeller<br />children of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Stillman_Rockefeller" title="Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller">Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stillman_Rockefeller" title="James Stillman Rockefeller">James Stillman Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Isabel_Rockefeller_Lincoln" title="Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln">Isabel Stillman Rockefeller</a> (m.) <a href="/wiki/Frederic_W._Lincoln_IV" title="Frederic W. Lincoln IV">Frederic W. Lincoln IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avery_Rockefeller" title="Avery Rockefeller">Avery Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Hartley_Dodge_Jr." title="Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.">Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abra_Prentice_Wilkin" title="Abra Prentice Wilkin">Abra Prentice</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of John Davison Rockefeller III<br />children of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller<br />children of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller<br />children of Winthrop Rockefeller<br />children of David Rockefeller<br />children of Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller" title="Jay Rockefeller">John Davison Rockefeller IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hope_Aldrich_Rockefeller" title="Hope Aldrich Rockefeller">Hope Aldrich Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alida_Rockefeller_Messinger" title="Alida Rockefeller Messinger">Alida Ferry Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Rodman_Rockefeller" title="Rodman Rockefeller">Rodman Clark Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Clark_Rockefeller" title="Steven Clark Rockefeller">Steven Clark Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Rockefeller" title="Michael Rockefeller">Michael Clark Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Rockefeller" title="Mark Rockefeller">Mark Fitler Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Laura_Rockefeller_Chasin" title="Laura Rockefeller Chasin">Laura Spelman Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Rockefeller_Weber" title="Marion Rockefeller Weber">Marion French Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Rockefeller_Waletzky" title="Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky">Lucy Aldrich Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurance_Rockefeller_Jr." title="Laurance Rockefeller Jr.">Laurance Rockefeller Jr.</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Paul_Rockefeller" title="Winthrop Paul Rockefeller">Winthrop Paul Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Abby_Rockefeller_(ecologist)" title="Abby Rockefeller (ecologist)">Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peggy_Dulany" title="Peggy Dulany">Margaret Dulany Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rockefeller" title="Richard Rockefeller">Richard Gilder Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileen_Rockefeller_Growald" title="Eileen Rockefeller Growald">Eileen Rockefeller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_A._Rockefeller" title="Godfrey A. Rockefeller">Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of John Davison Rockefeller IV</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Rockefeller" title="Justin Rockefeller">Justin Aldrich Rockefeller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">children of Rodman Clark Rockefeller</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meile_Rockefeller" title="Meile Rockefeller">Meile Louise Rockefeller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Special_Tony_Award" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #C0C0C0;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Special_Tony_Award" title="Template:Special Tony Award"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Special_Tony_Award" title="Template talk:Special Tony Award"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Special_Tony_Award" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Special Tony Award"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Special_Tony_Award" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Special_Tony_Award" title="Special Tony Award">Special Tony Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #C0C0C0;;width:1%">1947–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dora_Chamberlain" title="Dora Chamberlain">Dora Chamberlain</a> / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / <a href="/wiki/Jules_Leventhal" title="Jules Leventhal">Jules Leventhal</a> / <a href="/wiki/Burns_Mantle" title="Burns Mantle">Burns Mantle</a> / P. A. MacDonald / <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Sardi_Sr." title="Vincent Sardi Sr.">Vincent Sardi Sr.</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Vera Allen / <a href="/wiki/Paul_Beisman" title="Paul Beisman">Paul Beisman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joe_E._Brown" title="Joe E. Brown">Joe E. Brown</a> / Cast of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest" title="The Importance of Being Earnest">The Importance of Being Earnest</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Dowling" title="Robert W. Dowling">Robert W. Dowling</a> / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / <a href="/wiki/June_Lockhart" title="June Lockhart">June Lockhart</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mary_Martin" title="Mary Martin">Mary Martin</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Pierce_(backstage_doorman)" title="George Pierce (backstage doorman)">George Pierce</a> / <a href="/wiki/James_Whitmore" title="James Whitmore">James Whitmore</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Evans_(actor)" title="Maurice Evans (actor)">Maurice Evans</a> / Philip Faversham / <a href="/wiki/Brock_Pemberton" title="Brock Pemberton">Brock Pemberton</a> (1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Ruth Green (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Boyer" title="Charles Boyer">Charles Boyer</a> / <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> / <a href="/wiki/Edward_Kook" title="Edward Kook">Edward Kook</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> / <a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Lillie" title="Beatrice Lillie">Beatrice Lillie</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Proscenium Productions (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Center" title="New York City Center">City Center</a> / <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="New York Public Library for the Performing Arts">The New York Public Library Theatre Collection</a> / The Shakespearewrights / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera" title="The Threepenny Opera">The Threepenny Opera</a></i> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/American_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="American Shakespeare Theatre">American Shakespeare Festival</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jean-Louis_Barrault" title="Jean-Louis Barrault">Jean-Louis Barrault</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Russell_Bennett" title="Robert Russell Bennett">Robert Russell Bennett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Willie_Hammerstein" title="Willie Hammerstein">William Hammerstein</a> / Joseph Harbuck / <a href="/wiki/Paul_Shyre" title="Paul Shyre">Paul Shyre</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Louise_Heims_Beck" title="Louise Heims Beck">Mrs. Martin Beck</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_the_Park_(New_York_City)" title="Shakespeare in the Park (New York City)">New York Shakespeare Festival</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Russel_Crouse" title="Russel Crouse">Russel Crouse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Howard_Lindsay" title="Howard Lindsay">Howard Lindsay</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> / Cast of <i><a href="/wiki/La_Plume_de_Ma_Tante" title="La Plume de Ma Tante">La Plume de Ma Tante</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a> / <a class="mw-selflink selflink">John D. Rockefeller III</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Merrick" title="David Merrick">David Merrick</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Guild" title="Theatre Guild">The Theatre Guild</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson" title="Brooks Atkinson">Brooks Atkinson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Franco_Zeffirelli" title="Franco Zeffirelli">Franco Zeffirelli</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Bennett" title="Alan Bennett">Alan Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Cook" title="Peter Cook">Peter Cook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Miller" title="Jonathan Miller">Jonathan Miller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Moore" title="Dudley Moore">Dudley Moore</a> / <a href="/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a> / <a href="/wiki/W._McNeil_Lowry" title="W. McNeil Lowry">W. McNeil Lowry</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eva_Le_Gallienne" title="Eva Le Gallienne">Eva Le Gallienne</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Miller" title="Gilbert Miller">Gilbert Miller</a> / <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Smith_(designer)" title="Oliver Smith (designer)">Oliver Smith</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Menken" title="Helen Menken">Helen Menken</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">APA-Phoenix Theatre / <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Bailey" title="Pearl Bailey">Pearl Bailey</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carol_Channing" title="Carol Channing">Carol Channing</a> / <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier" title="Maurice Chevalier">Maurice Chevalier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich" title="Marlene Dietrich">Marlene Dietrich</a> / <a href="/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a> / <a href="/wiki/David_Merrick" title="David Merrick">David Merrick</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carol_Burnett" title="Carol Burnett">Carol Burnett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rex_Harrison" title="Rex Harrison">Rex Harrison</a> / <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">The National Theatre Company of Great Britain</a> / The <a href="/wiki/Negro_Ensemble_Company" title="Negro Ensemble Company">Negro Ensemble Company</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Fontanne" title="Lynn Fontanne">Lynn Fontanne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lunt" title="Alfred Lunt">Alfred Lunt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_the_Park_(New_York_City)" title="Shakespeare in the Park (New York City)">New York Shakespeare Festival</a> / <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Ingram Ash / <a href="/wiki/Elliot_Norton" title="Elliot Norton">Elliot Norton</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Playbill" title="Playbill">Playbill</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Roger_L._Stevens" title="Roger L. Stevens">Roger L. Stevens</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof" title="Fiddler on the Roof">Fiddler on the Roof</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Ethel_Merman" title="Ethel Merman">Ethel Merman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Guild" title="Theatre Guild">The Theatre Guild</a>-American Theatre Society (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Community_Fund" title="Entertainment Community Fund">The Actors Fund of America</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Lindsay" title="John Lindsay">John Lindsay</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_Shubert_Organization" title="The Shubert Organization">Shubert Organization</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association" title="Actors' Equity Association">Actors' Equity Association</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/A_Moon_for_the_Misbegotten" title="A Moon for the Misbegotten">A Moon for the Misbegotten</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Candide_(operetta)" title="Candide (operetta)">Candide</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Cook" title="Peter Cook">Peter Cook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Moore" title="Dudley Moore">Dudley Moore</a> / Harold Friedlander / <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a> / <a href="/wiki/Liza_Minnelli" title="Liza Minnelli">Liza Minnelli</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Development_Fund" title="Theatre Development Fund">Theatre Development Fund</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_F._Wharton_(lawyer)" title="John F. Wharton (lawyer)">John F. Wharton</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Al_Hirschfeld" title="Al Hirschfeld">Al Hirschfeld</a> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #C0C0C0;;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Abbott" title="George Abbott">George Abbott</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Circle_in_the_Square_Theatre" title="Circle in the Square Theatre">Circle in the Square Theatre</a> / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / <a href="/wiki/Mathilde_Pincus" title="Mathilde Pincus">Mathilde Pincus</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Crawford" title="Cheryl Crawford">Cheryl Crawford</a> / Equity Liberty Theatre / <a href="/wiki/Barry_Manilow" title="Barry Manilow">Barry Manilow</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Theatre_of_the_Deaf" title="National Theatre of the Deaf">National Theatre of the Deaf</a> / <a href="/wiki/Diana_Ross" title="Diana Ross">Diana Ross</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stan_Dragoti" title="Stan Dragoti">Stan Dragoti</a> and Charles Moss (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Walter F. Diehl / <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill_Theater_Center" title="Eugene O'Neill Theater Center">Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center</a> / <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Richard Fitzgerald / <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore" title="Mary Tyler Moore">Mary Tyler Moore</a> / Hobe Morrison (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lena_Horne" title="Lena Horne">Lena Horne</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Radio_City_Music_Hall" title="Radio City Music Hall">Radio City Music Hall</a> / <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Community_Fund" title="Entertainment Community Fund">The Actors Fund of America</a> / <a href="/wiki/WarnerMedia" title="WarnerMedia">Warner Communications</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Chorus_Line" title="A Chorus Line">A Chorus Line</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Feller" title="Peter Feller">Peter Feller</a> / <i>La Tragedie de Carmen</i> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yul_Brynner" title="Yul Brynner">Yul Brynner</a> / <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Council_on_the_Arts" title="New York State Council on the Arts">New York State Council on the Arts</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Abbott" title="George Abbott">George Abbott</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Mason" title="Jackie Mason">Jackie Mason</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Brooklyn Academy of Music">Brooklyn Academy of Music</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1990–1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma!" title="Oklahoma!">Oklahoma!</a></i> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hume_Cronyn" title="Hume Cronyn">Hume Cronyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Carol_Channing" title="Carol Channing">Carol Channing</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> / Harvey Sabinson (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernard_B._Jacobs" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard B. Jacobs">Bernard B. Jacobs</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Uta_Hagen" title="Uta Hagen">Uta Hagen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dame_Edna_Everage#2000–2009" title="Dame Edna Everage">Dame Edna: The Royal Tour</a></i> / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #C0C0C0;;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gemignani" title="Paul Gemignani">Paul Gemignani</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a> / Robert Whitehead (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cy_Feuer" title="Cy Feuer">Cy Feuer</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Russell_Simmons" title="Russell Simmons">Russell Simmons</a>' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway</i> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_M._Nederlander" title="James M. Nederlander">James M. Nederlander</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Jones_(stage_actress)" title="Sarah Jones (stage actress)">Sarah Jones</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harold_Prince" title="Harold Prince">Harold Prince</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No award</i> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Russell_Bennett" title="Robert Russell Bennett">Robert Russell Bennett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Herman" title="Jerry Herman">Jerry Herman</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Ayckbourn" title="Alan Ayckbourn">Alan Ayckbourn</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marian_Seldes" title="Marian Seldes">Marian Seldes</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Athol_Fugard" title="Athol Fugard">Athol Fugard</a> / Philip J. Smith (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association" title="Actors' Equity Association">Actors' Equity Association</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Jackman" title="Hugh Jackman">Hugh Jackman</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Gersten" title="Bernard Gersten">Bernard Gersten</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ming_Cho_Lee" title="Ming Cho Lee">Ming Cho Lee</a> / Paul Libin (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Greenwood" title="Jane Greenwood">Jane Greenwood</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Cameron_Mitchell" title="John Cameron Mitchell">John Cameron Mitchell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Tune" title="Tommy Tune">Tommy Tune</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick" title="Sheldon Harnick">Sheldon Harnick</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marshall_W._Mason" title="Marshall W. Mason">Marshall W. Mason</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> / Miles Wilkin (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Earl_Jones" title="James Earl Jones">James Earl Jones</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Leguizamo" title="John Leguizamo">John Leguizamo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber" title="Andrew Lloyd Webber">Andrew Lloyd Webber</a> / <a href="/wiki/Chita_Rivera" title="Chita Rivera">Chita Rivera</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen" title="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Harris" title="Rosemary Harris">Rosemary Harris</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marin_Mazzie" title="Marin Mazzie">Marin Mazzie</a> / <a href="/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Tilders" title="Sonny Tilders">Sonny Tilders</a> and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wheeler_(musician)" title="Harold Wheeler (musician)">Harold Wheeler</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / <a href="/wiki/David_Byrne" title="David Byrne">David Byrne's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/American_Utopia_(film)" title="American Utopia (film)">American Utopia</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Freestyle_Love_Supreme" title="Freestyle Love Supreme">Freestyle Love Supreme</a> / <a href="/wiki/Graciela_Daniele" title="Graciela Daniele">Graciela Daniele</a> (2020/21)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a> / <a href="/wiki/James_C._Nicola" title="James C. Nicola">James C. Nicola</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joel_Grey" title="Joel Grey">Joel Grey</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Kander" title="John Kander">John Kander</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alex_Edelman" title="Alex Edelman">Alex Edelman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Abe_Jacob" title="Abe Jacob">Abe Jacob</a> / Nikiya Mathis / <a href="/wiki/Jack_O%27Brien_(director)" title="Jack O'Brien (director)">Jack O'Brien</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_C._Wolfe" title="George C. Wolfe">George C. 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