Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (English: or ; French: [dypɔ̃]; 14 December 1739 – 7 August 1817) was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families immigrated 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's most successful and wealthiest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Battle of Chacabuco
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American School for the Deaf
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Erie Canal
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