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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Economist, Author
1739 – 1817
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Who was Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours?
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French writer, economist, and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families emigrated to the United States.
His son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was the founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He was the patriarch and progenitor of one of the United States' most successful and wealthiest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1739
Paris - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Paris
- Nemours
- Died
- Aug 7, 1817
Greenville
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on July 23, 2013
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