WILMINGTON, Del. — Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV, a former Delaware governor and congressman who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 86. Du Pont, a scion of the ...
What Du Pont did in World War I has been told chiefly by Congressional and journalistic witch hunters. Du Pont, in spite of its protests, was branded a “Merchant of Death.” This time E. I. du Pont de ...
The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who ...
Pete du Pont, the former Republican governor, presidential candidate and DuPont heir whose sprawling influence transformed state government and helped bring the credit card industry to Delaware, died ...