Colonel Sanders

Harland Sanders had been a railway fireman, insurance salesman and service station operator before running a motel and restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky. In 1952, aged sixty-two, he franchised his pressure-fried chicken to Pete Harman in Salt Lake City, and after a new interstate killed trade at his own restaurant he drove around signing up more franchisees. He sold Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1964 but stayed its face for life.