DuPont Co.'s 19 leaders since 1802
DuPont has had 19 company chiefs in its history. Here are the years they served:
• Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, 1802-1834: The company's Paris-born founder went into the gunpowder business at the urging of Thomas Jefferson.
• Alfred V. du Pont, 1834-1850: Eldest son of E.I. du Pont, he was a scientist and inventor.
• Henry du Pont, 1850-1889: The founder's second son and the longest-serving leader of the business.
• Eugene du Pont, 1889-1902: A grandson of E.I. du Pont, he died of pneumonia reportedly brought on by overwork.
• T. Coleman du Pont, 1902-1915: He and two other great-grandsons of the founder turned DuPont into a publicly held corporation.
• Pierre S. du Pont, 1915-1919: One of the three cousins who moved DuPont toward science and innovation.
• Irénée du Pont, 1919-1926: Pierre's brother and a great-grandson of the founder, he reorganized the internal structure of the company.
• Lammot du Pont, 1926-1940: Pierre and Irenee's brother, he led the company through the commercialization of Freon refrigerant and synthetics.
• Walter S. Carpenter Jr., 1940-1948: The first president who was not a du Pont family member.
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• Crawford H. Greenewalt, 1948-1962: Led DuPont through a court-ordered divestiture of its stake in General Motors.
• Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1962-1967: The last du Pont family member to run the company.
• Charles B. McCoy, 1967-1973: Oversaw a merger with Christiana Securities, which ended du Pont family control.
• Irving S. Shapiro, 1973-1981: Leapfrogged from DuPont's legal department to its front office.
• Edward G. Jefferson, 1981-1986: Engineered the 1981 merger with Conoco Inc.
• Richard E. Heckert, 1986-1989: Led a drive to make management more sensitive to sales and marketing.
• Edgar S. Woolard Jr., 1989-1995: Led the company through a major restructuring and employee cutbacks during the '90s.
• John A. Krol, 1995-1998: Put an emphasis on life sciences.
• Charles O. Holliday Jr., 1998-2008: Oversaw $60 billion worth of changes to the company's portfolio.
• Ellen J. Kullman, 2008-2015: Oversaw continued consolidation while defending the company from billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz.