Jimmy Dean’s name greets Americans from coast to coast in the supermarket sausage aisle. The man himself was a country ...

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Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company in 1969, and he appeared in its TV ads for many years, even after the Sara Lee Corporation bought Dean’s company and took over its management in 1984.