Background
Pont, Thomas Coleman Du was born on December 11, 1863 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Antoine Bidermann and Ellen Susan (Coleman) D.
Pont, Thomas Coleman Du was born on December 11, 1863 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Antoine Bidermann and Ellen Susan (Coleman) D.
Student Urbana (O.) University, Chauncy Hall School, Boston, and Massachusetts Institute Technology.
Surveyor Louisville & Southern Exposition, and engineer Central Coal & Iron Company, 1883. General manager, Johnson Company, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1893. Has engaged extensively in coal and iron mining in Kentucky, since 1883, and also in construction and management of st. rys.
Removed to Wilmington, 1900.
Was president Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, 1902-1915. President Central Coal & Iron Company, McHenry Coal Company, Main Jellico Mountain Coal Company (all of Kentucky), Wilmington Trust Company.
Member Corporation Massachusetts Institute Technology. Member Republican National Committee, since 1908. Member United States Senate, July 1921, to fill vacancy, for period ending November 1922.
Married Alice du Pont, January 17, 1889.