James Buchanan Duke
American businessman (1856-1925) · United States · On the map · Founders · Died at 68
James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke University. He was the founder of the American Tobacco Company in 1890.
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Lived 1856 to 1925 · aged 68
