John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, who served two terms as West Virginia governor and five terms in the U.S. Senate, died Friday at 89, West Virginia Watch reported¹.

CNBC, carrying Reuters, said he died at his home in Washington and that his family did not provide a cause⁶.

A New York-born heir to the Rockefeller fortune, he moved into West Virginia politics after anti-poverty work in the state beginning in 1964, was elected to the House of Delegates in 1966 and became secretary of state in 1968^1,6.

He was governor from 1976 to 1984 and a senator from 1985 to 2015, often as junior colleague to Robert C. Byrd¹.

As a senator he helped shape the Children's Health Insurance Program and supported the 2010 Affordable Care Act^1,6.

He voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war and later said the Bush administration took the country to war on false premises, CNBC reported⁶.

He announced in 2013 he would not seek a sixth Senate term⁶.

Former Rep. Nick Joe Rahall called him a compassionate leader in comments to West Virginia Watch¹.

WV MetroNews reported flags were ordered to half-staff³.

West Virginians for Affordable Health Care called him a champion of coverage for children and working families¹. He is a great-grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller⁶.

WTRF and WSAZ carried local obituaries reviewing his years in Charleston and Washington^2,8.

Funeral arrangements were not detailed in the reports reviewed^1,6.