James Buchanan Duke

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James Buchanan Duke (1856 - 1925) was a U.S. tobacco industrialist. He was endower and eponym of Duke University. He was the son of Washington Duke. Duke did not invent the cigarette rolling machine; that was invented by a friend of his, James Albert Bonsack in 1881. Duke, however was the first to exploit the machine and through a favorable contract with his friend was able though his company American Tobacco Company to establish a short-lived monopoly of the manufacture of tobacco products in the United States.

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• Brief biography with photograph, Duke University website

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