John D. Rockefeller

(noun)

Often regarded as the richest person in history, Rockefeller pioneered the modern, systematic method of targeted philanthropy.

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Examples of John D. Rockefeller in the following topics:

  • Rockefeller and the Oil Industry

    • John Davison Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, a business trust which dominated the oil industry.
    • John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
    • Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist John D.
    • In the early years, John D.
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  • Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry

    • Mellon, and John D.
    • Rockefeller.
    • John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
    • He is often regarded as the second-richest man in history after John D.
    • To overcome these disadvantages, clever lawyers for John D.

  • Education and the Professions

    • John D.
    • Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company to consolidate the oil industry—which mostly produced kerosene before the automobile created a demand for gasoline in the 20th century.
    • Andrew Carnegie, John D.
    • Rockefeller, and "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the most influential industrialists during the Gilded Age.
    • Rockefeller built Standard Oil into a national monopoly; then he retired from the oil business in 1897 and devoted the next 40 years of his life to giving away his fortune using systematic philanthropy, especially to upgrade education, medicine and race relations.

  • Social Security and Tax Reform

    • This highest tax rate covered just one individual, John D.
    • Rockefeller.

  • The Gilded Age

    • The super-rich industrialists and financiers such as John D.
    • Rockefeller, Andrew W.
    • John D.
    • Rockefeller donated over $500 million to various charities, slightly over half his entire net worth.

  • The Transformed National Economy

    • Often their success lay in seeing the long-range potential for a new service or product, as John D.
    • Rockefeller did with oil.
    • Other giants in addition to Rockefeller and Ford included Jay Gould, who made his money in railroads, J.

  • From Competition to Consolidation

    • To overcome these disadvantages, clever lawyers for John D.
    • Rockefeller organized his Standard Oil of Ohio as a common-law trust .
    • The result was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, sponsored by Senator John Sherman, of Ohio.

  • Carnegie and the Steel Industry

    • He is often regarded as the second-richest man in history after John D.
    • Rockefeller.
    • Edgar Thomson Steel Works, (named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill (Wilson, Walker & County), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.
    • John Pierpont Morgan was a banker and perhaps America's most important financial deal maker.

  • Higher Education

    • Wealthy philanthropists, for example, established Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, and Duke University; John D.
    • Rockefeller funded the University of Chicago without imposing his name on it.

  • The Election of 1960

    • The 1960 election was a close race in which Senator John F.
    • In the 1960 election, the incumbent president, Republican Dwight D.
    • Senator John F.
    • However, Rockefeller declined to run, and Nixon did not face any significant opposition for the Republican nomination.
    • Former President John F.