Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas Coleman DU PONT
du PONT, Thomas Coleman, (cousin of Henry Algernon du Pont), a Senator from Delaware; born in Louisville, Ky., December 11, 1863; attended the public schools, Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, Chauncy Hall School, Boston Mass., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.; engaged in engineering, later being interested in coal mining, street railways, steel manufacturing, explosives, hotels, office buildings, and road building; moved to Central City, Ky., in 1883 and was engaged as a mining engineer; moved to Johnstown, Pa., in 1893 and engaged in steel manufacturing; moved to Wilmington, Del., in 1900; retired from business activities in 1915; member of the Republican National Committee 1908-1930; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Josiah O. Wolcott and served from July 7, 1921, to November 7, 1922; unsuccessful candidate for election to this vacancy and also for election to the full term; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation on December 9, 1928; died in Wilmington, Del., November 11, 1930; was cremated and committed to a grave in the family burial ground near Christ Church in Christiana Hundred.
He was one of 3 cousins that bought du Pont Company in 1902, to keep it from being sold to strangers.
He was a candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
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