Bush’s handling of the Iraq War, died on Friday (November 6, 2026) at his home in Washington, the Washington Post reported. He was 89. John D. Senate sought expanded healthcare for the poor and excoriated President George W.
“Jay” Rockefeller IV, the progeny of one of America’s most famous and wealthiest families, who during three decades in the U.S.
Mr. He was a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and the scion of a family that formed a political dynasty that included his uncle, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, a tall, soft-spoken Democrat with liberal views, was elected in 1984 to the first of his five six-year terms representing West Virginia in the Senate after two terms as Governor of the poor coal-mining State.
When he was put in public office, he worked to increase healthcare access, fight poverty, provide health benefits to coal miners and assist military veterans. Mr. In the debate over Mr. Obama’s measure, Mr. Rockefeller unsuccessfully sought to have the federal government offer a medical insurance program to the general population — in addition to existing programs for the poor and elderly — as an alternative to private insurance plans that could be costly and exclusive. Mr. Rockefeller, who became one of the wealthiest members of the U.S. Mr.
As a senator, he had a role in shaping the programme created in 1997 under which the U.S. government helps States provide medical coverage for millions of uninsured children. Rockefeller backed Democratic President Bill Clinton’s failed proposal for near-universal health insurance coverage in the 1990s and then fought for Democratic President Barack Obama’s successful quest for a healthcare overhaul law, signed in 2010. He lost a bid to become Governor in 1972, then served as a college president before being elected Governor in 1976. Congress, spent millions of dollars of his own money to bankroll his successful campaign for the US Senate in 1984. Rockefeller sometimes found himself overshadowed by his State’s other senator, Robert Byrd, who died in 2010 at age 92 as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history.
