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Who established The Duke Endowment?

  • James Buchanan Duke

  • Washington Duke

  • Benjamin N. Duke

  • John D. Rockefeller

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James Buchanan Duke, a tobacco and electric power industrialist, established The Duke Endowment in 1924. The university changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
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