Doris Duke

Doris Duke, (November 22, 1912 ? October 28, 1993) was an American heiress and philanthropist.

Philanthropy

Duke spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island where many of America's wealthy elite such as the Vanderbilt family had built their summer mansions. There, she created the Newport Restoration Foundation with the purpose of preserving more than eighty colonial buildings in the town. She did a great deal of philanthropic work and was an major benefactor of medical research and child welfare. Her foundation, Independent Aid, created when she was twenty-one years of age, became The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Related Topics:
Vanderbilt family - Newport Restoration Foundation - The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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