Richest American Presidents of All Time | TOP 10
Who are the richest American Presidents of all time?
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Have you ever wondered? After the richest people in America, we carried the tradition and brought you: the Richest American Presidents of all time!
I wanted to help you acknowledge the American history and its Presidents and how better do it than with a list of the richest American Presidents?
Because of them, USA is today a country with many possibilities and one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations.
Let’s focus and start the list with the richest American Presidents!
#10: Franklin Delano Roosevelt – $60 million
The 32nd President of the United States was an American statesman and political leader.
He was elected four times and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century.
As a Democrat he was leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
He was a dominant leader of the Democratic Party, not many people agreed with his methods.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century.
He inherited millions, owned hundreds of acres of valuable real estate on the East Coast, which is why today his net worth according to the inflation is estimated at $60 million.
#9: Herbert Hoover – $75 million
The 31st President of the United States was a professional mining engineer and born to a Quaker family.
He served during the World War I as head of the U.S. Food Administration and later as the United States Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
At the election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience.
Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents elected without electoral experience or high military rank.
Beside President Kennedy who donated all his paychecks to charity, Hoover was the second President to redistribute his salary.
He was already making a small fortune in mining, Hoover didn’t need more money.
#8: Bill Clinton – $80 million
Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). He was inaugurated at age 46, becoming the third-youngest president.
The first president from the baby boomer generation, Clinton took the office at the end of the Cold War.
But before he was president, Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas for five terms (1979-1981; 1983-1992).
In 1992 when he was elected president he defeat incumbent George H. W. Bush, an position he had over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.
Bill’s net worth was just $700k on his first day in office, today is estimated at $80 million.
Since re-entering private life, Bill has earned more than $100 million from speaking engagements alone. He also has made a fortune from book sales.
#7: Lyndon B. Johnson – $100 million
When JFK was president, Lyndon B. Johnson was the Vice President.
Johnson was the 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), a position he has gained after his service as the 37th Vice President.
After JFK’s assassination, he completed Kennedy’s term and was elected President in his own right in the 1964 election, winning in front of Barry Goldwater.
He is one of four people who served in both offices of the executive branch as well as both houses of Congress.
During Johnson’s presidency, assisted in a part by a growing economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line.
Civil rights bills signed by Johnson banned racial discrimination in public facilities, interstate commerce, the workplace, and housing.
The voting rights act guaranteed full voting rights for citizens of all races.
Johnson owned a radio and TV station plus a 1500 acre ranch in Texas.
#6: John F. Kennedy – $100 million
Did you know that F. from John F. Kennedy stands for Fitzgerald?
The American politician served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
When he was president, several important events occurred. Such as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race (The project Apollo), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
In the 1960 U.S. Presidential Election, Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon.
He was 43 when he was elected president, and became the youngest man to have been elected to the office as well as the second-youngest president.
He was the first person born in the 20th century to serve as President.
To date, Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president and the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
Kennedy’s father, Joseph was worth $1 billion from liquor importation which he inherited. Some real estate adds to his net worth.
#5: James Madison – $100 million
The fourth President of the United States (1809-1817), James Madison was an American statesman, and political theorist.
He was the author of the United States Bill of Rights as well as the “Father of the Constitution” because he was instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution.
Unlike the other presidents, he served as a politician most of his adult life.
After the Constitution, Madison became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify it.
Like most of his competitors he changed his political views many times during his life.
During the drafting and ratification of the constitution, he favored a strong national government, though later he grew to favor stronger state governments.
As president, after the failure of diplomatic protests and a trade embargo against Great Britain, he led the nation into the War of 1812.
#4: Andrew Jackson – $120 million
Jackson was born into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family on March 15, 1767.
The 7th President of the United States (1829-1837), Jackson and his family supported the revolutionary cause acted as a courier, and then at age of 13 he was captured by the British.
He helped found the state of Tennessee and then was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives which led to a job to the U.S. Senate.
Few years later he was become colonel in the Tennessee militia, which later become his political as well as military base.
In 1804, Jackson owned hundreds of slaves and made them work on the new Hermitage plantation he acquired.
His national fame came in the War of 1812, where he won decisive victories over the Indians and then over the main British invasion army.
As president, he faced a threat of secession from South Carolina over the “Tariff of Abominations” which Congress had enacted under Adams.
His properties were real estate, 300 slaves, inheritance plus the money from his wife.
#3: Theodore Roosevelt – $125 million
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States and a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the Progressive Party insurgency of 1912.
He came from a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt as a child was sticky and suffered of asthma.
That’s the main reason he embraced strenuous life, because his needs to overcome the illness.
Not long had to pass for Roosevelt to enter the politics world.
In 1881, he was elected to the New York State Assembly where he became a leader of the reform faction.
In 1901 after President McKinley was assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt become the youngest person to become president (at age of 42).
He was the first president to speak out on conservation, and he greatly expanded the system of national parks and national forests.
Roosevelt negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
He inherited large trust fund and more than 200 acres of land in Long Island which is why his net worth is estimated at $125 million.
#2: Thomas Jefferson – $212 million
One of the American Founding Fathers and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809).
He believed in democracy and embraced the principles of republicanism and the rights of the individual with worldwide influence.
He served in the Continental Congress representing Virginia at the beginning of the American Revolution and then moved to Governor of Virginia as wartime.
In 1785 he was the first United States Secretary of State serving under President George Washington.
While he was president he doubled the size of the United States which is why he got elected for his second term.
As a person, Jefferson was interested in science, invention, architecture, religion, and philosophy. He even designed several notable buildings among his home Monticello.
Thomas Jefferson knew several foreign languages and although he wasn’t a good orator, he was a great writer.
He owned 5000 acres of Virginia farmland plus dozens of slaves which is why his net worth is estimated at $212 million.
#1: George Washington – $525 Million
The first President of America (1789-1797) is also the first on our richest American Presidents of all time.
Elected unanimously as the first President of the United States in 1789, he attempted to bring rival factions together to unify the nation.
He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War as well as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Washington had this vision that America can have a well-financed national government that maintained neutrality in the wars raging in Europe.
His choices and some forms in government that he established during his time as President, are still used today. One example of those forms is the cabinet system and inaugural address.
But before the Presidential days, Washington was born in to the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia.
At that time his family was rich; they were a wealthy planter family who owned tobacco plantations and slaves.
A part of his millions, are due to his family richness which he inherited. In total he owned 800 acres of Virginia farmland and 300 slaves.
Washington became an international icon for liberation and nationalism which often ranked him among top 3 presidents of U.S.
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But let’s not forget those presidents that aren’t present today in our list: Abraham Lincoln, George H. W. Bush, John Quincy Adams, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and the list can go on.
With only 12 million dollars as his net worth, Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
Until we meet again, answer me this: Who do you think was the best President U.S.A. had so far? Why?
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