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Sharon Rockefeller Edit Profile
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Sharon Lee Percy Rockefeller is the wife of former West Virginia Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV and served as that state"s First Lady from 1977 to 1985.
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Background
She was born in Oakland, California, on December 10, 1944, a twin daughter of Senator Charles Harting Percy (1919—2011) and Jeanne Valerie Dickerson, who died in 1947.
Education
She earned a Bachelor"s degree at Stanford University and later studied at Morris Harvey College and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Career
Her twin sister Valerie was murdered in 1966 at the family home by a mysterious intruder.
Sharon married John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born 1937) in 1967. He is the son of John Davison Rockefeller III (1906—1978) and Blanchette Ferry Hooker (1909—1992) of the Rockefeller family.
As First Lady of West Virginia, she promoted the Public Broadcasting Service, h