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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

1739 - 1817

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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( dew-PONT, DEW-pont, French: [pjɛʁ samɥɛl dy pɔ̃ d(ə) nəmuʁ]; 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 migrated 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours is the 10,918th most popular politician (down from 9,625th in 2019), the 3,163rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,877th in 2019) and the 718th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ranks 10,918 out of 19,576. Before him are Agapenor, Rafael Paasio, Saleh al-Arouri, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Matvei Platov, and Christiaan de Wet. After him are Andronikos Doukas, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Philip I, Margrave of Baden, Eutharic, Ptolemy Apion, and Salvador Valdés Mesa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ranks 16. Before him are Charles-François Lebrun, Jean Chalgrin, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Jean-François de La Harpe, and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal. After him are Frei Galvão, John Robison, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Johann Beckmann, and Juan de Villanueva. Among people deceased in 1817, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ranks 30. Before him are Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, Giacomo Quarenghi, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz. After him are Joseph von Sonnenfels, Jean-Sifrein Maury, William Gregor, Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Pattimura, and Pál Kitaibel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ranks 3,163 out of 6,770. Before him are Gabriel Bibron (1805), Bénézet (1165), Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany (1391), Suzanne Flon (1918), Marguerite Durand (1864), and Richard Galliano (1950). After him are Yvon Douis (1935), Octave Feuillet (1821), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Beatus Rhenanus (1485), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), and Gérard Larrousse (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ranks 718. Before him are Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), Élisabeth de Bourbon (1614), Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (1760), Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy (1386), Théodore Steeg (1868), and Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany (1391). After him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (1766), Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719).

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