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Home > News > American Vegetable Grower > June 2008

Billionaire J.R. 'Mr. Spud' Simplot Dies At 99

June 5, 2008

J.R. Simplot, an Idaho grower who supplied much of the dried potatoes and vegetables consumed by U.S. troops in World War II, died recently at the age of 99.