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He was the man who popularized tobacco which basically saved the early colonists from wiping out. Queen Elizabeth actually knighted him, and he was the one who financed and organized the Roanoke Colony. James I (Elizabeth's successor) didn't like him and imprisoned him and finally beheaded him. He was also known for his womanizing.

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