#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.
