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Happy Rockefeller

Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller was a philanthropist who, as the wife of the 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in office.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Happy Rockefeller” is second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Happy, Rockefeller and Second, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1977, 1963, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Happy, Rockefeller and Second is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1977, 1963 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Happy Rockefeller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.