James Buchanan Duke
Entrepreneur, Organization founder
1856 – 1925
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Who was James Buchanan Duke?
James Buchanan Duke was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, and his involvement with Duke University.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1856
Durham - Also known as
- Buck
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lillian M. Fletcher
(1904 - 1906) - Nanaline Inman
(1907 - 1925/10/10)
- Lillian M. Fletcher
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
- Duke Energy
- Lived in
- Durham
- Somerville
- Died
- Oct 10, 1925
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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