Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is the great-grandson of businessman George Dayton, the founder of Dayton's, a department store that later became the Target Corporation. His father Bruce Dayton also founded the B. Dalton bookstore chain in 1966.
He was a teacher in New York City and chief financial officer of a social service agency in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from YALE University in 1969. During his time at Yale, he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, alongside President George W. Bush and received his B.A. in psychology (cum laude) in 1969.
He WAS married to Alida Rockefeller Messinger, a member of the ROCKEFELLER family. youngest sister of U.S. Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV, in 1978; they divorced in 1986. Dayton and his second wife, Janice R. Haarstick, President of Jamahda Farm Inc, divorced in 1999. Dayton has two sons, Eric and Andrew, from his first marriage.
He was a teacher in New York City and chief financial officer of a social service agency in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from YALE University in 1969. During his time at Yale, he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, alongside President George W. Bush and received his B.A. in psychology (cum laude) in 1969.
He WAS married to Alida Rockefeller Messinger, a member of the ROCKEFELLER family. youngest sister of U.S. Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV, in 1978; they divorced in 1986. Dayton and his second wife, Janice R. Haarstick, President of Jamahda Farm Inc, divorced in 1999. Dayton has two sons, Eric and Andrew, from his first marriage.