Richest Person in Every State

[Archangel]

Interesting article from Forbes. These are in no particular order.

1. Washington - Bill Gates - 76 Billion - Microsoft
2. Oregon - Phil Knight - 25 Billion - Nike
3. California - Mark Zuckerberg - 51 Billion - Facebook
4. Alaska - Leonard Hyde, Johnathan Rubini - 350 Million - Real Estate
5. Idaho - Scoot Simplot - 2 Billion - Fertilizer Company
6. Nevada - Sheldon Adelson - 26 Billion - Casinos
7. Arizona - Bruce Halle - 8 Billion - Founder of Discount Tires
8. Utah - Gail Miller - 1 Billion - Owner of Utah Jazz & over 50 Car dealerships
9. Montana - Dennis Washington - 6 Billion - Construction & Mining
10. Wyoming - John Mars - 22 Billion - Mars Candy Inc (M&M's, Twix, Skittles, Snickers etc)

11. Colorado - Charles Ergen - 13 Billion - Dish Satellite
12. New Mexico - Mack Chase - 690 Million - Oil Tyc00n
13. North Dakota - Gary Tharaldson - 980 Million - Hotel Tyc00n
14. South Dakota - Denny Sanford - 1 Billion - Banking & Credit Cards (MasterCard)
15. Nebraska - Warren Buffet - 67 Billion -Business Magnate (GEICO, Dairy Queen, Kraft, Helzberg Diamonds)
16. Kansas - Charles Koch - 42 Billion - Koch Industries
17. Oklahoma - Harold Hamm - 10 Billion - Oil & Gas
18. Texas - Alice Walton - 33 Billion - Wal-Mart
19. Hawaii - Pierre Omidyar - 7 Billion - Ebay
20. Minnesota - Whitney MacMillan - 5 Billion - Cargill Inc (agriculture, oil, livestock, steel)

21. Iowa - Harry Stine - 3 Billion - Stine Seed Inc
22. Missouri - Stanley Kroenke - 7 Billion - Owner of LA Rams, Denver Nuggets & other teams. Also married to daughter of the founder of Wal-Mart.
23. Arkansas - Jim Walton - 34 Billion - Wal-Mart
24. Louisiana - Tom Benson - 2 Billion- Owner of New Orleans Saints
25. Michigan - Dan Gilbert - 5 Billion - Quicken Loans Inc & Owner of Cleveland Cavaliers
26. Wisconsin - John Menard Jr - 10 Billion - Menards Inc (Home Improvement Stores)
27. Illinois - Ken Griffin - 7 Billion - Founder of Citadel LLC (Global Financial Institution)
28. Kentucky - Wayne Hughes - 2 Billion - Founder of Public Storage Inc
29. Tennessee - Thomas Frist Jr - 8 Billion - Owner of Hospital Corporation of America
30. Mississippi - Leslie Lampton - 1 Billion - Founder of Ergon Inc (Oil refining, chemicals)

31. Indiana - Carl Cook - 5 Billion - Cook Group Inc (Medical devices & equipment)
32. Alabama - Jimmy Rane - 610 Million - Great Southern Wood Preserving (Lumber)
33. Ohio - Les Wexner - 6 Billion - Owner of L Brands (Victoria Secrets, Bath & Body Works)
34. West Virginia - Jim Justice II - 1 Billion - Greenbrier Hotel Corp. (Luxury Hotels & Resorts)
35. Virginia - Jacqueline Mars - 22 Billion - Mars Candy (M&M's, Twix, Skittles, Snickers etc)
36. Georgia - Jim Kennedy - 10 Billion - News Corp. & Sony
37. Florida - Thomas Peterffy - 13 Billion - Interactive Brokers Group (Stocks, Options, Bonds, Funds, etc)
38. South Carolina - Anita Zucker - 2 Billion - CEO Hudson Bays Co (Fur trading & Retail stores)
39. North Carolina - James Goodnight - 8 Billion - SAS Institute (Software developer)
40. Pennsylvania - Mary Alice Dorrance Malone - 4 Billion - Campbells Soup

41. Maryland - Ted Lerner - 5 Billion - Lerner Enterprises & owner of Washington Nationals
42. Delaware - Robert Gore - 770 Million - W.L Gore & Associates & Gore Tex (computers, space equipment, medical equipment)
43. New Jersey - Donald Newhouse - 9 Billion - Advance Publications (Vogue, Vanity & The New Yorker Magazines)
44. New York - Michael Bloomberg - 43 Billion - Bloomberg LP (Financial Software, Data & Media)
45. Connecticut - Ray Dalio - 15 Billion - Bridgewater Associates (pension funds, central banks, foreign governments)
46. Rhode Island - Jonathan Nelson - 1 Billion - Providence Equity Partners (Media, Communcations & Education)
47. Massachusetts - Abigail Johnson - 14 Billion - CEO Fidelity Investments
48. Vermont - John Abele - 600 Million - Co Founder of Boston Scientific
49. New Hampshire - Andrea Reimann Ciardelli - 1 Billion - JAB Holding Company
50. Maine - Bill Alfond - 1 Billion - Dexter Shoe Company

No black people at all

 

[ManBearPig]

not really fair since many rich people move to Cali.

 

[Aphrodite]

Inspiring if most weren't white.

 

[Collateral]

I'm trying to rob one of these cacs. Let me finesse a quick 2.5 off of you.

 

[Michael9100]

No black people at all

try africa ..... in the next 100 years, try africa again

 

[Strapped]

Only saw 1 of the koche boys

 

[ben anderson]

sheesh

 

[Genome]

No black people at all

Jonathan Nelson is black

 

[Archangel]

Jonathan Nelson is black

Nope.

 

[Archangel]

All this money in the US and we aint got none of it. Most of these people on this list are heirs of generational wealth. We gotta set our children up like they do.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Zuckerberg was the straight come up.

 

[L&HH]

I
50. Maine - Bill Alfond - 1 Billion - Dexter Shoe Company

This one is one of the craziest stories/comeups of all time. This guys father (Harold Alfond) started a shoe company called Dexter Shoe Company and sold it to Warren Buffet in the mid-90's for $400 million worth of Berkshire stock. The shoe company went to shyt and made Buffet no money and the stock is worth billions. Harold (the father) then left the stock to his kids, Bill being one of them, and they're all billionaires.

 

[eufemism]

What always amazes me about billionaire lists is that they're hundreds of billionaires and obviously they don't take into consideration people with 1-900 million

 

[Archangel]

This one is one of the craziest stories/comeups of all time. This guys father (Harold Alfond) started a shoe company called Dexter Shoe Company and sold it to Warren Buffet in the mid-90's for $400 million worth of Berkshire stock. The shoe company went to shyt and made Buffet no money and the stock is worth billions. Harold (the father) then left the stock to his kids, Bill being one of them, and they're all billionaires.

Yea I read about that. I never heard of dexter shoe company either.

 

[Genome]

Nope.

My bad got him confuesd with someone else