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  1. Sep 21, 2024 · T. Coleman du Pont, an engineer and early automobile enthusiast, built the Du Pont Highway (completed 1923) to connect southern Delaware to Wilmington. His cousin, Pierre S. du Pont, organized citizen support to improve public education and, during the 1920s, paid for the construction of new schools throughout the state. Alfred I. du Pont ...

  2. 2 days ago · This number rose to 60, the highest number of seats the Republicans have ever held, after Democrat senator Josiah O. Wolcott of Delaware accepted an offer from Republican governor William D. Denney to become Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, allowing Denney to name Republican T. Coleman du Pont to replace Wolcott, a seat du Pont ...

  3. 1 day ago · It was the first election since 1892 in which a Democrat was elected to a second term, and the first since 1832 in which a Democrat was elected to a consecutive second term. The United States entered the war in April 1917, one month after Wilson's second term began.

  4. Sep 16, 2024 · The third volume of Tabler’s celebratio­n of The First State and its history moves from the late 19th century to what Tabler calls the “E-era,” charting the building of skyscraper­s, highways (envisioned as early as 1911 by T. Coleman du Pont), and a leading edge in the developmen­t of the world’s digital present and future.

  5. Sep 3, 2024 · Eugène du Pont (November 16, 1840 – January 28, 1902) was an American businessman who served as the first head of the modern-day DuPont corporation.

  6. Sep 16, 2024 · Du Pont's realization in 1921 that its "U-form" corporate structure was ill-suited its new diversification strategy led to a pioneering new kind of organization - the "M" or multidivisional form - that has been called the most important innovation of capitalism in the 20th century.

  7. Sep 17, 2024 · Buena Vista was originally built between 1845 and 1847 by Delaware and U.S. statesman John Middletown Clayton (1796-1856). It stayed in his family until it was sold to T. Coleman du Pont in 1914 and later C. Douglass Buck, who served as Delaware’s governor from 1929 to 1937. It was sold by the Bucks to the State of Delaware in 1965 for $1.