Laura Rockefeller Chasin (born 1936) is the daughter of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French

Mary French

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 and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family

Rockefeller family

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. Her paternal great-grandfather is Standard Oil

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's co-founder John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

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 and maternal great-grandfather is Fredrick Billings, a president of Northern Pacific Railway

Northern Pacific Railway

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Chasin has served on the board of directors of the Children's Defense Fund

Children's Defense Fund

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Her first husband was James H. Case. Her second husband is Richard Chasin, a psychiatrist, and a trustee

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 of the principal family-controlled philanthropy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Chasins currently reside in Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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