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Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).
With law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard Universities, Donald Horowitz earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard. Most of his work has concerned ethnic conflict and accommodation in severely divided societies, based on a combination of extensive field research and wide knowledge of the phenomena in multiple countries, beginning with a long series of stays in Malaysia immediately ...
James B. Duke once stated about the status of Durham: [21] Durham, as a city, must be holistically judged for its economic merit. This means we musn't let our colored neighbors fall into economic depression. It was also evident that the level of business on Black Wall Street was insignificant in comparison to the Duke Tobacco industry.
James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
James B. Duke establishes the $40 million Duke Endowment, propelling the final name change to Duke University 1925 Original campus rebuilt with Georgian style buildings 1930 Majority of construction on the new Gothic Revival-style West Campus is complete 1938 Duke's football team, dubbed the Iron Dukes, dominate their regular season opponents 1942
The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 1993; The Dukes of Durham and The Launching of Duke University 1987 [7] Electrifying the Piedmont Carolinas: The Duke Power Company, 1904-1997 2001; Bold Entrepreneur: A Life of James B. Duke 2009; The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation [8] winner of the Jules F. Landry Award
At Duke University, the title of James B. Duke Distinguished Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. At some universities, titles like " distinguished professor ", " institute professor ", or " regents professor " are counterparts of this title.
Wallace Fowlie (1908–1998) was an American writer and professor of literature. He was the James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University where he taught from 1964 to the end of his career.