Washington Duke
✓ Source-basedfallingConfederate Navy officer, businessman, philanthropist and tobacco industry executive (1820-1905)
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Washington Duke was an American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist. During the American Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate States Navy. In 1865, Duke founded the W. Duke, Sons & Co., a tobacco manufacturer that would be merged with other companies to form conglomerate American Tobacco Company in 1890.
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Card created by Donaldson Brothers, from the Miniature Novelties series issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco (c. 1890)
Puzzle Card Number 8, The Cryptogram Puzzle, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco (c. 1890)
Statue of Washington Duke at Duke University's East Campus, photographed in June 2006In their orbit 5
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Business Professionals
Type
Business Professional
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1820 to 1905 · aged 84
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