POLITICS

A Republican Governor from the Days of Yore

Winthrop Rockefeller’s two terms as governor of Arkansas illustrate just how far Republicans have fallen.

Cowboy hat from Winthrop Rockefeller’s campaign for governor | Source: The Winthrop Rockefeller Collection

In 1953, the forty-one-year-old grandson of John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire, made a shocking relocation from towny New York to Arkansas, one of the most…