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John Richard Simplot (/ ˈ s ɪ m p l ɒ t /; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products.
May 28, 2008 · J. R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then marshaled luck, spunk and inventiveness to fashion an entrepreneurial career that...
Simplot, who provided McDonald’s with fresh Idaho russet potatoes except during the summer months, had assigned one of his chemists to work on a method to freeze potatoes without compromising...
Dec 15, 1991 · During the war years, Simplot shipped 33 million pounds of dehydrated potatoes and 5 million pounds of dried onions a year to the armed forces. In fact, the plant produced a third of the dried potato products bought by the military during World War II, Zerza said.
Jan 21, 2017 · John Richard Simplot (January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008), America’s great potato baron, was the billionaire founder of his namesake company, which is with interests in food, fertilizer, turf and horticulture, and cattle feeding.
This profile of J.R. Simplot, inventor of the frozen french fry, was previously published in 1996. J.R Simplot died Sunday, May 25, 2008, at his home in Boise at the age of 99.
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Jan 4, 2021 · For over 15 years, J.R. Simplot worked, and by the beginning of World War II, the JR Simplot company was the largest shipper of fresh potatoes in the country.
