GOVERNORS OF DELAWARE (chronological order)

·       John Collins (Gov. 1819-1822) --

·       Collin’s family

·       Caleb P. Bennett (Gov. 1832-1836) -- Freemason

·       Thomas Stockton (Gov. 1844-??) -- high-ranking Freemason

·       Charles C. Stockley (Gov. 1883-87) -- Freemason

·       Benjamin T. Biggs( Gov.1 887-1891)-- Freemason

·       Pierre Samuel Du Pont, I V( 1977- ) -- also U.S. Representative, and other gov. positions

·       U.S. SENATORS OF DELAWARE (alphabetical order of surnames)

T. Coleman DuPont ( Sen.1 921-192?) Henry A. DuPont ( Sen.1 895-1896) ( 1906-1916) In 1896, the U.S. Senate rejected his election and therefore Henry DuPont’s credentials due to proof of voter fraud. Delaware legislature (republican) replaced Henry (a republican) with a democrat. But in 1899 when the Senate seat became available and another one in 1901 too they could not come to any agreement on a selection of a Senator because Henry A. DuPont and John Edwards O’Sullivan Attacks the two republican leaders were fighting so much. Consequently in 1899 Delaware only had one U.S. Senator and from 1901 to 1903 Delaware had no U.S. Senators.

·       L. Heisler Ball ( 190345,1 919-25) also served Del. as state treasurer -- Freemason.

·       James H. Hughes (Sen. 1937-42)- Freemason, also was Del. Sec. of State

·       Richard R. Kenney (Sen. 1897- 1901), Freemason, also adj. general of Del.

·       Arnold Naudain (Sen. 1830-36), Freemason, Grand Master of the G.L. of Del., also state senator (‘36-39),

·       John G. Townsend (Sen. 1929-42), Freemason, banker, alternate delegate to the U.N. General Assembly in 1946.

·       James M. Tunnell (Sen. 1941-47), Freemason, 32°, also lawyer

·       John Wales (Sen. 1849-51), Freemason, Pres. of Nat. Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine, sec. of state of Del. 1845-49.

·       William V. Roth. Jr. (Sen. 1971- ) CFR, Trilateral Commission, also on the Rep. Nat. Comm.

The DuPont gunpowder factories dominated the industry. Within only a short time after getting started in 1802 they had the best quality gunpowder in the world for the general market. Every war the United States has fought starting in 1802 with the war against Tripoli (today Libya) and the Barbary Pirates until the incursion Into Somolia this last year the American military has depended upon DuPont gunpowder. Henry Du Pont (1812-1889) took over command of the gunpowder manufacturing when he was thirty-eight. He was very authoritarian and was known as Boss Henry. His narrow-minded, backward and authoritarian thinking ran the DuPont company into the ground in spite of their control of the gunpowder market. When he died, Alfred I. DuPont, Pierre Samuel Du Pont II (1870-1954), and Thomas Coleman Du Pont (1863-1930) took over various DuPont manufacturing affairs. This triumvirate revived the aging Du Pont factories. They bought out the rest of the gunpowder manufacturers, giving them an absolute monopoly in the munitions industry. They modernized the DuPont factories and put the DuPont businesses back Into top shape.
On August 22, 1857 the Du Ponts lost their first family member to an explosion, Alexis DuPont. The DuPonts had always been in the forefront on safety at their gunpowder factories, but that did not prevent them from having to suffer repeated explosions over the years. An explosion at a gunpowder factory is easily set off and very deadly. The tutor that was hired in 1852 to tutor the DuPont children, R. Page Williamson, described in his letters to Virginia that the DuPont children were very spoiled and difficult to work with. In 1872, Henry DuPont brought together Laflin & Rand and Hazard Powder Co. in order to form a Gun Powder Trade Association. What the Association did was to eliminate competition between the three largest manufacturers of gunpowder, and create a monopoly for this cartel. Eventually DuPont bought out the other two plus numerous other small gunpowder companies. I suggest that everyone who believes that the DuPonts and the rest of the elite are capitalists, should take another look at history. These men do not believe in capitalism, they believe in monopolies--which boils down to the same thing that occurs under communism. When these people described their setting up a monopoly they call it "bringing order and stability to a fragmented and chaotic industry." In 1889, Alfred I. Du Pont attempted to bribe French officers in charge of the production of smokeless gunpowder to give the secrets to him. But no amount of bribe would work, as the Frenchmen knew they would lose their lives if they gave the secrets to him. The British were not any more helpful. Life was not all peaches and cream. Fred was murdered. William Du Pont (1855-1928) was trapped in a marriage with a DuPont cousin, May Du Pont, that he didn’t want to be married to. Louis Cazenove Du Pout a handsome, intelligent young - committed suicide with a bullet in the library at the Wilmington Club. Alfred was shot in the face by accident on a hunting trip. The DuPont family had their share of heartaches, broken marriages, insanity, etc. When Mary Belin married into the family she brought some Jewish blood. As a major part of the budding military industrial complex the DuPonts during the 19th century had to work with the army and navy. The army and navy convinced them to Implement a contract with the Coopal Co. in Belgium for smokeless powder, which when the formula was received was found to be inferior to what the American were already producing. However, this whole episode ended with the DuPonts going with their own formula and setting up a new plant at Carney’s Point, New Jersey. This hits the highlights of the family history in their first 100 years in this nation. To celebrate their first hundred years, every living descendent of the first Pierre Samuel was invited to a great banquet. A building was built to house them. They numbered over 100. At each person’s table setting was a special gift of a gold coin, prepared especially to commemorate this centennial. On Jan. 1, 1900, the DuPont tribe celebrated. The DuPonts are shrouded in so much secrecy, that their secrecy is not even known. When Eugene DuPont, the chief executive of the family gunpowder/high explosive business died near the turn of the century, none of the other DuPonts hardly even a vague idea of how much the company was worth or what assets it had. (At that time the DuPonts had powder plants in PA, DEL, Iowa, and TN. The DuPonts are much the same today, except that their assets are perhaps ten times better hidden, not only from outsiders but from themselves. The DuPonts have in general made their money the hard way-by working and producing, in contrast to the other top families. The DuPonts are to be commended on this, even If at times they have been very tight on what they have given their workers. The DuPonts have also shown an amazing ability to keep their dynasty alive. There seems to be an increasing invisibility to their family.