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Bette Nesmith Graham

1924 - 1980

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Bette Nesmith Graham (March 23, 1924 – May 12, 1980) was an American typist, commercial artist, and the inventor of the correction fluid Liquid Paper. Born as Bette Clair McMurry, she married Warren Nesmith at the age of 19 and became the mother of the musician and producer Michael Nesmith, who later became the guitarist of The Monkees. After Warren returned from serving in World War II, the couple divorced, leaving Bette to raise Michael as a single mother. She married Robert Graham in 1962, and he helped her run the lucrative Liquid Paper business that she had founded a few years prior. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bette Nesmith Graham is the 392nd most popular inventor (up from 396th in 2019), the 10,497th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,448th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Bette Nesmith Graham ranks 392 out of 426. Before her are Robin Li, William Friese-Greene, Oliver Evans, Gary Fisher, Yvonne Brill, and Dean Kamen. After her are Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Lewis Howard Latimer, Jerry Lawson, John F. Seitz, Granville Woods, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Bette Nesmith Graham ranks 450. Before her are Mary Ford, Lennart Magnusson, Annemarie Buchner, Lev Kulidzhanov, Norman Fell, and Bianca Maria Piccinino. After her are Frank Press, Stanley Jaki, Mark Lenard, Sam Jones, Hugh Huxley, and Jeremiah Denton. Among people deceased in 1980, Bette Nesmith Graham ranks 276. Before her are Dorothy Stratten, Clyfford Still, Shohachi Ishii, Larry Williams, William Hood Simpson, and Nikolay Bogolyubov. After her are Lucy Morton, William Gemmell Cochran, David Marr, Ahmet Berman, Frank Saker, and Rachel Fuller Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bette Nesmith Graham ranks 10,499 out of 20,380. Before her are Peter Horton (1953), Michael D. Griffin (1949), Ellen Ochoa (1958), Kelly Rohrbach (1990), Eliphalet Remington (1793), and Jennifer Lynch (1968). After her are Connie Sellecca (1955), Carlos Alazraqui (1962), Gale Harold (1969), Jason Schwartzman (1980), Ben Ray Luján (1972), and Logan Lerman (1992).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Bette Nesmith Graham ranks 109. Before her are Frank Piasecki (1919), George Stibitz (1904), George Beauchamp (1899), Oliver Evans (1755), Gary Fisher (1950), and Dean Kamen (1951). After her are Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Jerry Lawson (1940), John F. Seitz (1892), Granville Woods (1856), and Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922).

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