Pierre S. du Pont
Entrepreneur
Former president of the chemical company E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1915 until 1919 and former manager of General Motors.
He received a chemistry degree from MIT in 1890.
He developed America's first smokeless gunpowder.
He married his cousin Alice Belin in 1915 after being a longtime bachelor.
He and Henry Ford both named their companies after themselves.