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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

French writer, economist and government official

Died when: 77 years 236 days (931 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (English: /du?'p?nt/ or /dju?'p?nt/; French: [dyp?~]; 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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