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Don Draper

Don Draper
Mad Men character
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Jon Hamm as Don Draper.
First appearance "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1.01)
Last appearance "Person to Person" (7.14)
Created by Matthew Weiner
Portrayed by Jon Hamm
Brandon Killham (Young Dick Whitman)
Information
Nickname(s) Don, Dick
Aliases Richard Whitman (birth name)
Occupation Senior Partner and Creative Director, Sterling Cooper & Partners (season 6–present; End of Season 7 Part 1 for Creative Director)
Founding Partner, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (seasons 4–6)
Creative Director, Sterling Cooper (seasons 1–3)
Family Archibald Whitman
Evangeline
Abigail Whitman (stepmother)
Uncle Mac (stepfather)
Spouse(s) Megan Calvet (1965–1970)
Betty Hofstadt (1953–1964)
Anna M. Draper (widow of real Don Draper, div. 1953)
Children Sally Beth Draper (daughter)
Robert "Bobby" Draper (son)
Eugene Scott Draper (son)
Relatives Adam Whitman (half brother)
Romances Midge Daniels (ex-lover)
Rachel Katz (ex-lover)
Bobbie Barrett (ex-lover)
Suzanne Farrell (ex-lover)
Dr. Faye Miller (ex-girlfriend)
Sylvia Rosen (ex-lover)
Bethany Van Nuys
Don Draper
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
Rank First Lieutenant
Private (as Richard Whitman)
Unit 40th Infantry Division
Battles/wars Korean War
Awards Purple Heart BAR.svg Purple Heart Medal
Korean Service Medal - Ribbon.svg Korean Service Medal
Navy and Marine Corps Medal ribbon.svg Navy and Marine Corps Medal

Donald Francis "Don" Draper is a fictional character and the protagonist of AMC's television series Mad Men, portrayed by Jon Hamm. Up to the Season 3 finale, Draper was Creative Director of Manhattan advertising firm Sterling Cooper. He then became a founding partner at a new firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, after he and his superiors left their previous agency in advance of an unwanted acquisition. The agency later merged with a rival firm, Cutler Gleason & Chaough, to become Sterling Cooper & Partners while pursuing a contract from Chevrolet.

The character of Don Draper is partially inspired by Draper Daniels, a creative director at Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in the 1950s, who worked on the Marlboro Man campaign.

Most of the characters in the series are portrayed as knowing little, if anything, of Draper's history and true identity; Harry Crane remarks, "Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one's ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know." Clues are given through flashbacks, confessions, and clandestine visits with figures from his past.

As the series unfolds, it is gradually revealed through flashbacks that "Donald Francis Draper" is an assumed identity; the character was born Richard "Dick" Whitman. Whitman was born in Illinois to a prostitute who died in labor and an abusive alcoholic father, Archibald "Archie" Whitman, who was killed when a spooked horse kicked him in the face while a ten-year-old Dick watched. He then lived with his stepmother Abigail and his younger half brother Adam, until they moved in with Abigail's sister Ernestine, and Ernestine's husband Mac, who runs a bordello. When Ernestine dies, Abigail and Uncle Mac begin living together as a couple. While Uncle Mac is kind to Dick, Abigail is physically and emotionally abusive.

During this period of his life, Whitman begins to suffer from croup and is left under the care of a prostitute named Aimee, who takes his virginity when she rapes him.


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