Family and Youth
Duke was born in New York City. His father was Angier Buchanan Duke (1884–1923) an heir to the American Tobacco Company fortune; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Newton Duke (1855–1929), a major benefactor of Duke University (named for the family). His mother was Cordelia Drexel Biddle. His maternal grandfather was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. of the Biddle family of Philadelphia. A great-great-grandfather through his mother was banker Anthony Joseph Drexel.
After a misspent youth, which included an education at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, he dropped out of Yale University in 1936.
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