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Victor Marie du Pont

Victor Marie du Pont
Born Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours
(1767-10-01)October 1, 1767
Paris, France
Died January 30, 1827(1827-01-30) (aged 59)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Residence New Castle County, Delaware
Occupation diplomat
businessman
politician
Spouse(s) Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport
Children Charles I. du Pont
Samuel Francis du Pont

Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours (October 1, 1767 – January 30, 1827) was a French American diplomat, politician and businessman. He was a member of the Delaware General Assembly, the founder of the Du Pont, Bauduy & Co., wool manufacturers, and brother of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company.

Victor du Pont was born October 1, 1767 in Paris, France, son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise le Dée. He married Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport in 1794 and had five children, Amélie-Élisabeth (1796-1869), Samuel Francis (born and died 1799), Charles Irénée (1803-1865), Samuel Francis (1803-1865) and Julia Sophie (1806-1882).

After 1784 du Pont worked with his father in King Louis XVI's Bureau of Commerce. There he had opportunities to travel around Europe and meet visiting friends of his father. In 1788 he began four years of work with the French minister to the United States in both New York City and Philadelphia. Returning to Paris in 1793, he married and soon went back to the United States, this time as French Consul at Charleston, South Carolina. He remained there until 1797 when he was named French Consul-General at Philadelphia, but being refused recognition by President John Adams, he returned to France.

For the next two years Victor du Pont assisted his father in his preparation for the whole family immigrating to the United States. They finally sailed on the American Eagle, arriving in Newport, Rhode Island, January 1, 1800. From there the father, two brothers, and wives and children, went to live at Goodstay, a house purchased for them in Bergen Point, New Jersey. Many ideas for future du Pont businesses were conceived in the coming year at Goodstay, including the one that had his brother, Eleuthère, beginning a gunpowder business. Victor and his brother returned to France for a year in 1801 to seek investors for that and various other prospects. He returned to New York, established a trading company, Victor du Pont de Nemours & Co., and acted as an agent for Louis Pichon, the French Consul-General and chargé d'affairs, provisioning French troops seeking to quell the rebellion then going on in Santo Domingo. This firm went into bankruptcy in 1808, as his many advances, including those to the French government, went unreimbursed. Victor next tried his hand at farming and merchandising on the Genesee River valley of western New York.


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