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The richest person in every state
Most of us know the richest person in America (Bill Gates at $70 billion).
But what about the richest person in your state?
Wealth-X has put together a list of all 50 states with their top wealth holders. Surprisingly nine states don't have billionaires (and yet somehow they manage to function). It only took $300 million to be the richest Wyoming resident, and $400 million to be the wealth king of Alaska.
Granted, many of the super rich don't really "live" anywhere, since they flit from home to home and state to state. Wealth-X used the business address for each wealth holder to determine residence.
Here's the list.
State - Person - Net Worth Value after Valuation (US$ Billion)
AlabamaMarguerite Harbert 1.5
Alaska Robert Gillam 0.4
Arizona Bruce Halle Sr.4.4
Arkansas James Walton 37.1
California Lawrence Ellison 46.4
Colorado Charles Ergen 13.7
Connecticut Raymond Dalio 13.4
Delaware Robert Gore 0.8
Florida Micky Arison 5.9
Georgia Anne Cox Chambers 11.4
Hawaii Jay Shidler 0.7
Idaho Frank Vandersloot 1.2
Illinois Samuel Zell 3.8
Indiana Gayle Cook 4.8
Iowa Dennis Albaugh 1.6
Kansas David Koch 41.5
Kentucky Brad M. Kelley 1.9
Louisiana Thomas Benson 1.3
Maine Leon Gorman 0.8
Maryland Theodore Lerner 4.1
Massachusetts Abigail Johnson 16.9
Michigan Kenneth Dart 6.6
Minnesota Whitney MacMillan 3.8
Mississippi Jim Barksdale 0.6
Missouri John L. Morris 3.8
Montana Dennis Washington 5.6
Nebraska Warren Buffett 59.8
Nevada Sheldon Adelson32.3
New Hampshire Richard Cohen 10.0
New Jersey David Tepper 7.9
New Mexico John A Yates 0.8
New York Michael Bloomberg21.4
North Carolina James Goodnight 7.4
North Dakota Gary Tharaldson 0.9
Ohio Leslie Wexner 5.2
Oklahoma George Kaiser 9.8
Oregon Phillip Knight 14.7
Pennsylvania Hansjorg Wyss 9.2
Rhode Island Jonathan Nelson 1.5
South Carolina Anita Zucker 2.6
South Dakota T. Denny Sanford 1.3
Tennessee Thomas Frist Jr. 3.2
Texas Michael Dell 16.0
Utah Blake Roney 0.6
Vermont Robert Stiller 1.1
Virginia Forrest Mars Jr. 20.1
Washington Bill Gates 70.8
West Virginia James Justice II 1.6
Wisconsin John Menard Jr 7.3
Wyoming John Martin 0.3
Source: Wealth-X
The richest person in every state
Most of us know the richest person in America (Bill Gates at $70 billion).
But what about the richest person in your state?
Wealth-X has put together a list of all 50 states with their top wealth holders. Surprisingly nine states don't have billionaires (and yet somehow they manage to function). It only took $300 million to be the richest Wyoming resident, and $400 million to be the wealth king of Alaska.
Granted, many of the super rich don't really "live" anywhere, since they flit from home to home and state to state. Wealth-X used the business address for each wealth holder to determine residence.
Here's the list.
State - Person - Net Worth Value after Valuation (US$ Billion)
AlabamaMarguerite Harbert 1.5
Alaska Robert Gillam 0.4
Arizona Bruce Halle Sr.4.4
Arkansas James Walton 37.1
California Lawrence Ellison 46.4
Colorado Charles Ergen 13.7
Connecticut Raymond Dalio 13.4
Delaware Robert Gore 0.8
Florida Micky Arison 5.9
Georgia Anne Cox Chambers 11.4
Hawaii Jay Shidler 0.7
Idaho Frank Vandersloot 1.2
Illinois Samuel Zell 3.8
Indiana Gayle Cook 4.8
Iowa Dennis Albaugh 1.6
Kansas David Koch 41.5
Kentucky Brad M. Kelley 1.9
Louisiana Thomas Benson 1.3
Maine Leon Gorman 0.8
Maryland Theodore Lerner 4.1
Massachusetts Abigail Johnson 16.9
Michigan Kenneth Dart 6.6
Minnesota Whitney MacMillan 3.8
Mississippi Jim Barksdale 0.6
Missouri John L. Morris 3.8
Montana Dennis Washington 5.6
Nebraska Warren Buffett 59.8
Nevada Sheldon Adelson32.3
New Hampshire Richard Cohen 10.0
New Jersey David Tepper 7.9
New Mexico John A Yates 0.8
New York Michael Bloomberg21.4
North Carolina James Goodnight 7.4
North Dakota Gary Tharaldson 0.9
Ohio Leslie Wexner 5.2
Oklahoma George Kaiser 9.8
Oregon Phillip Knight 14.7
Pennsylvania Hansjorg Wyss 9.2
Rhode Island Jonathan Nelson 1.5
South Carolina Anita Zucker 2.6
South Dakota T. Denny Sanford 1.3
Tennessee Thomas Frist Jr. 3.2
Texas Michael Dell 16.0
Utah Blake Roney 0.6
Vermont Robert Stiller 1.1
Virginia Forrest Mars Jr. 20.1
Washington Bill Gates 70.8
West Virginia James Justice II 1.6
Wisconsin John Menard Jr 7.3
Wyoming John Martin 0.3
Source: Wealth-X
New Mexico - Walter H. White
