Junius George Groves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1859
Place of Birth: Green County, Kentucky, United States
Date of Death: 17-Aug-1925
Profession: businessperson
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Junius George Groves
- Junius George Groves (April 12, 1859 – August 17, 1925) was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Known as the "Potato King of the World" by 1902, Groves optimized potato growth methods, out-producing anyone else in the world to that point.
- His vast financial success—?analyzed further in Booker T.
- Washington's The Negro in Business (1907)—?was utilized to help combat racism by providing economic opportunities for other black Americans.
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