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Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Familia Delano. En Estados Unidos, la familia Delano incluye a personas conocidas como los presidentes de Estados Unidos Franklin Delano Roosevelt y Calvin Coolidge, el presidente de EE. UU. y general del Ejército de la Unión Ulysses S. Grant, la escritora Laura Ingalls Wilder, y el astronauta Alan B. Shepard.
23 de ene. de 2024 · In 1857, Warren Delano Jr. lost much of his wealth in a financial panic—so, like many other American speculators before him, he returned to the opium trade and quickly rebuilt his fortune.
On 3 November our community lost a young, extremely talented scientist under tragic circumstances when Warren DeLano died suddenly.
Warren Delano Jr.'s career smuggling opium into China. Warren Delano Jr. made a large fortune trading opium in Canton (now Guangzhou), China. Delano first went to China at age 24 to work for Russell & Company, which had pioneered trading with China.
Warren Delano (b. 1809), grandfather to President Roosevelt, descended from a long line of seafaring Delanos. Warren inevitably followed in his ancestors' footsteps and became an apprentice at a Boston merchant bank and shipping firm.
This paper looks at the life Warren Delano, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's maternal grandfather, and his involvement in the China trade in the 19th century. From his early beginnings in modest American firms to his senior position in Russell and Co. America's largest shipping company in Canton China.
