
James Buchanan Duke
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 99 years ago |
Date of birth | December 23,1856 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Durham |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 10,1925 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Children | Doris Duke |
Job | Entrepreneur |
Businessperson | |
Industrialist | |
Education | Eastman Business College |
Guilford College | |
Spouse | Nanaline Inman |
Lillian M. Fletcher | |
Founded | American Tobacco Company |
Siblings | Benjamin Newton Duke |
Parents | Washington Duke |
Artelia Roney Duke | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 594102 |
James Buchanan Duke Life story
James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, and his involvement with Duke University. He was the founder of the American Tobacco Company in 1890.