1864 -  1943

Born into slavery, George Washington Carver was to become a world renowned agricultural researcher and a great educator.  He received his bachelor degree from Iowa State University and later was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Simpson College in Iowa.

He joined Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Insitute in 1896 where he remained for 47 years.  While there, he developed more than 300 uses for the peanut and numerous uses for the sweet patato, soybean, and pecan.  Commemorative postage stamps were issued in his honor in 1947 and again in 1998.  A fifty-cent coin was issured in 1961.  His birth place in Diamond Grove, Missouri is now a national monument.

         GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - a great Black American