Alida Rockefeller Messinger

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Alida Rockefeller Messinger (born 1948) is an American philanthropist. Messinger is also a member of the Rockefeller family fortune. A donor to Democratic candidates and environmentalist causes, she is the former wife of former Minnesota governor and former U.S. Senator Mark Dayton, and also sister to former West Virginia governor and former U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller. She has been a major donor to progressive political causes in her home state of Minnesota. Outside of activism, she is a former trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a public charity started by her father and his siblings. Her patrilineal great-grandfather is John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and widely considered to be the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in history.

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