L. Francis Rooney III is a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, 2005-2008. He had served as the CEO of Rooney Holdings, an investment and holding company based in Naples, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the Georgetown Preparatory School, Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center. Rooney is the oldest of Laurence Francis and Lucy Turner Rooney's six children. His younger siblings are Patrick T. Rooney, Timothy P. Rooney, Lucy Rooney Kapples, James H. Rooney, and Rebecca Rooney. Rooney is the majority owner of Manhattan Construction Company; he is the fourth generation of his family to own that company. Manhattan Construction built the new Cowboys Stadium in Texas, the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center at the United States Capitol, the Oklahoma State Capitol, the George Bush Presidential Library, the Cato Institute headquarters, New Orleans Sports Arena, and Reliant Stadium. The company is working on the George W. Bush Presidential Library earning it the distinction to be the only construction company to work on two presidential libraries. [More at Wikipedia]

December 4th, 1953 in (Age 70)