How A Family Of Watchmakers Became America's Oldest Billionaires

Can you have royalty without a monarchy? Some say that the lack of a King or Queen in the United States of America proves that the land of the free is free of a ruling class. But judging from how the public rolls out the red carpet for certain family dynasties, it seems humans have a natural urge to worship elites. Some family trees reach this status through political empire, fortune, celebrity, or the arts. For the DuPont family, their rise to the top was through a vast business enterprise that influenced politics but started with a humble French watchmaker way back in the 1700s. Now they are one of America’s preeminent industrialists and have been one of the nation’s richest families since the mid-19th century. They’ve also been dogged with controversy which is how you’ve heard of them even if you didn’t think you’d heard of them. So how did one of America’s most elite families get its start overseas? And how influential are they? And is their political legacy one of respect or meddling? It’s time to learn How History Works as we explore ‘How A Watchmaker Started One Of the Oldest Fortune In The World’. ------ #History #business #dupont Link To My Other Channel: Written By: Sam Ely Video Created By: Gabriela Gutierrez Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images Music Provided By: Epidemic Sound For sponsorship inquiries, please contact [email protected] ----- Sources https://www.britannica.com/topic/du-Pont-family https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/economics-biographies/pierre-samuel-du-pont-de-nemours https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/the-louisiana-purchase/ https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/07/du-pont/ https://www.hagley.org/about-us https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/samuel-francis-du-pont https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8073370&page=1 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2019-05-02/ty-article/.premium/researcher-dupont-helped-nazi-germany-out-of-ideology/0000017f-f4c5-d044-adff-f7fd87d30000 https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/manhattan-project-spotlight-ei-du-pont-de-nemours-company/

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