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American Tobacco Company

COMPANY

Founded 1890 by James Buchanan Duke. An antitrust court ruling in 1911 severed the company into four pieces: American Tobacco Company, R. J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company (now Liggett Group), and Lorillard Tobacco. The remnant was eventually acquired by Brown & Williamson in 1994.

Industry:
Tobacco

Corporate headquarters:
Durham, NC

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
James Buchanan Duke
Business
23-Dec-1856 10-Oct-1925 American Tobacco Company
John H. Hager
Politician
28-Aug-1936   Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jack Benny
Actor
14-Feb-1894 26-Dec-1974 The Jack Benny Show
Janet Blair
Actor
23-Apr-1921 19-Feb-2007 Night of the Eagle
Joan Blondell
Actor
30-Aug-1906 25-Dec-1979 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Claudette Colbert
Actor
13-Sep-1903 30-Jul-1996 It Happened One Night
Joan Crawford
Actor
23-Mar-1905 10-May-1977 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Dolores del Rio
Actor
3-Aug-1905 11-Apr-1983 Flying Down to Rio
Marlene Dietrich
Actor
27-Dec-1901 6-May-1992 The Blue Angel
Amelia Earhart
Aviator
24-Jul-1897 2-Jul-1937 Misplaced aviatrix
Sally Eilers
Actor
11-Dec-1908 5-Jan-1978 Coroner Creek
Frances Farmer
Actor
19-Sep-1913 1-Aug-1970 Hollywood actress, institutionalized
Alice Faye
Actor
5-May-1915 9-May-1998 Fallen Angel
Henry Fonda
Actor
16-May-1905 12-Aug-1982 12 Angry Men
Anne Francis
Actor
16-Sep-1930 2-Jan-2011 Forbidden Planet
Jean Harlow
Actor
3-Mar-1911 7-Jun-1937 Bombshell
Helen Hayes
Actor
10-Oct-1900 17-Mar-1993 First Lady of the Theater
Bob Hope
Comic
29-May-1903 27-Jul-2003 Centenarian comic
Miriam Hopkins
Actor
18-Oct-1902 9-Oct-1972 The Story of Temple Drake
Al Jolson
Singer
26-May-1886 23-Oct-1950 The Jazz Singer
Carole Lombard
Actor
6-Oct-1908 16-Jan-1942 My Man Godfrey
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Socialite
12-Feb-1884 20-Feb-1980 The Other Washington Monument
Myrna Loy
Actor
2-Aug-1905 14-Dec-1993 The Thin Man
Ray Milland
Actor
3-Jan-1907 10-Mar-1986 The Lost Weekend
Robert Montgomery
Actor
21-May-1904 27-Sep-1981 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Lilli Palmer
Actor
24-May-1914 27-Jan-1986 The Four Poster
Dick Powell
Actor
14-Nov-1904 2-Jan-1963 The Bad and the Beautiful
George Raft
Actor
26-Sep-1895 24-Nov-1980 Actor with Mafia ties
Edward G. Robinson
Actor
12-Dec-1893 26-Jan-1973 Key Largo
Barbara Stanwyck
Actor
16-Jul-1907 20-Jan-1990 Double Indemnity
Margaret Sullavan
Actor
16-May-1911 1-Jan-1960 The Shop Around the Corner
Gloria Swanson
Actor
27-Mar-1897 4-Apr-1983 Sunset Blvd.
Robert Taylor
Actor
5-Aug-1911 8-Jun-1969 Quo Vadis
Spencer Tracy
Actor
5-Apr-1900 10-Jun-1967 Two consecutive Best Actor Oscars
Lana Turner
Actor
8-Feb-1920 29-Jun-1995 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Lupe Velez
Actor
18-Jul-1908 13-Dec-1944 The Mexican Spitfire
Ted Williams
Baseball
30-Aug-1918 5-Jul-2002 Cryonically preserved .400 hitter
Jane Wyatt
Actor
12-Aug-1910 20-Oct-2006 Father Knows Best
Florenz Ziegfeld
Theatre Producer
21-Mar-1869 22-Jul-1932 The Ziegfeld Follies


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