JAY ROCKEFELLER, HEIR TO FAMED DYNASTY AND HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE IN US SENATE, DIES AT 89

John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, the progeny of one of America's most famous and wealthiest families who during three decades in the US Senate sought expanded healthcare for the poor and excoriated President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, died aged 89 on Friday at his home in Washington, his wife Sharon Percy Rockefeller said.

She added that plans were underway for a ​service at the Washington National Cathedral. Rockefeller, a tall, soft-spoken Democrat with liberal views, was elected in 1984 to the first of his five six-year terms representing West Virginia ‌in the Senate after two terms as governor of the poor coal-mining state.

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