#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.
