George Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond,Missouri. During his childhood he went to school and had to walk 10 miles. He graduated from Iowa state university. While Carver get’s deeper into his education he became the inventor of peanuts and sweet potatoes. His reputation is largely based on his promotion of alternate crops to cotton,such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternatives crops both as a source of other products to improve their quality of life. During the last two decades of his life, Carver seemed to enjoy his celebrity status. He had to manage the production and sale of farm products to generate revenue for the Institute.He attended a series of schools before earning his diploma
