Jay Rockefeller, Senate voice on health care and security, dies at 89

John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV, an heir to a vast oil fortune and a liberal Democrat who entered politics in his adopted home state of West Virginia, serving as governor and a five-term U.S. senator and becoming a leading voice on health care, tax reform, social welfare and national security, died Friday at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 89. His family did not provide a cause.