George Washinton Carver

Agricultural Chemist who lived from 1864 to 1943. For some inexplicable reason, suffered from a bizarre obsession with the peanut, discovering over 300 uses for said nut, and several hundred more uses for sweet potatos, pecans, and soybeans, including peanut butter, oil, adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain.

Also, a noted civil rights figure and hero. One of the first african americans to receive a national monument in his honor in 1943, dedicated by then President Franklin Delanoor Roosevelt. The epitaph reads:

"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."

Also worked at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, along with it's founder, Booker T. Washington.

Frequently mixed up by elemntary school children with our first president, regular George Washington, which has led to some of the best history reports in existence.



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