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John Richard Simplot ( / ˈsɪmplɒt /; 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.
- Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
- Eighth grade dropout
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Dec 15, 1991 · J.R. Simplot, who turns 83 next month, owes his tough-as-a-boot frame to Idaho's rugged desert. He credits World War II with making him rich. ``Without it, I don't know where I'd have been,'' Simplot said, from behind a wide desk 13 stories above downtown Boise.
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...
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 21, 2017 · russet_potato. In 1965, J. R. Simplot met with Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder. Kroc found it’s appealing to switch to frozen french fries to ensure uniformity and cut labor costs, since a three-month unavailable of Russet potato leads to the problem in consistency and quality of the fries.
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.
Clearly, J.R. "Jack" Simplot's rise to prominence as a shipper of potatoes and onions in the late 1920s and 1930s defines the company's roots, but it was not until the turbu-lent years of World War II that two of the company's cor-nerstone businesses, food processing and fertilizer manu-facturing, were established.
