Don Draper

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Richard "Dick" Whitman
Alias	Donald "Don" Draper
Origin	Mad Men
Occupation	Farmhand Limo driver and valet US Army soldier Car salesman Fur coat salesman Advertising executive Art director at Sterling-Cooper Main partner at Sterling-Cooper Co-owner, manager and boss of SCDP (Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) Co-owner, main partner and boss of SC&P (Sterling-Cooper & Partners) (all formerly) Salesman and creative art director for McCann-Erickson
Powers / Skills	Treachery Manipulation Forgery Intelligence Lying Advertising showmanship Strength Agility
Goals	Do not get his real name or identity get revealed (partially succeeded but also failed) Remain a major player in the advertising industry (succeeded) Become successful and famous (succeeded) Succesfully move out of Sterling-Cooper to new company SCDP (succeeded) Create his own advertising firm (succeeded)
Crimes	Forgery Identity theft Manslaughter Domestic Abuse Child Neglect Emotional Abuse Blackmail
Type of Villain	Morally Ambiguous Ad Exec

Donald Francis "Don" Draper also known by his real name Richard "Dick" Whitman is the villainous main protagonist of the AMC TV show Mad Men. He is an advertising executive and art director for Sterling-Cooper who soon becomes a co-owner of SCDP (Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) and later on SC&P (Sterling-Cooper & Partners).

He was portrayed by Jon Hamm who also portrayed Matthew Trent in Black Mirror, Reverend Richard Wayne in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Buddy in Baby Driver, and voiced Herb Overkill in Minions, Sentinel Prime in Transformers One and Don Grouper in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Biography

Early life

Don Draper was born as Richard "Dick" Whitman on January 1926 in a brothel in Illinois to a prostitute named Evangeline who died giving birth to him. Not wanting him to be raised there, the midwife gave the baby Dick to his biological father and the man who impregnated Evangeline: Archibald "Archie" Whitman and his wife Abigail Whitman who decided to raise Dick by themselves.

As the years went by however, Dick was constantly physically, emotionally and verbally abused by the alcoholic Archibald and Abigail who called him a "whore's child" for most of the time. Sometime in the early 1930s after the Great Depression started, Dick, Abigail and Archibald met a hobo who wanted to work for them as a farmhand and assistant to Archie, realizing that he could help their conditions, the family let the hobo in and had a meal with him where Dick found out that he was from New York City. Later on, he talked to the hobo and also found out that he had ran away from his life in New York because of the Great Depression whilst he also learned the hobo code and what the symbols mean. The next day, the hobo started to leave the ranch after he got cheated by Archibald who took some of his money. Dick saw the man write the hobo code on some wood soon after before he finally left.

External links

Don Draper - Heroes Wiki