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  1. 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. Simplot was born in Iowa in 1909. A year later, his family left Iowa and eventually settled in Idaho.

  2. Special to The Times. J.R. Simplot, whose lifetime fascination with the potato helped change the nation’s eating habits and made him a billionaire, died Sunday. He was 99. Simplot, who in his ...

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    Simplot was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old John Richard Simplot near the agricultural community of Declo in south central Idaho, United States. [2] During the early 1940s, the business expanded, providing the military with dehydrated onions and potatoes during World War II. The firm was incorporated as the J. R. Simplot Company in 1955.

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    • 1929; 94 years ago; Declo, Idaho
  5. May 28, 2008 · In the mid-1970s, Mr. Simplot was charged with trying to manipulate Maine potato futures. He was barred from commodities trading for six years and paid $50,000 in fines and an undisclosed amount ...

  6. 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. "I think we delivered a lot of potatoes during the war, and we learned a lot in ...

  7. Simplot and His Frozen French Fries Empire. 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, horticulture, and cattle feeding. Simplot was born in Iowa in 1909. A year later, his family left Iowa and ...

  8. Jul 20, 2021 · John Richard or "J.R." Simplot was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Soda Springs, Idaho based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 billion. J.R. ‘Jack’ Simplot began his colorful career in 1923, near the small farming ...

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