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"Time 100 Builders & Titans: Sam Walton by John Huey". Time Magazine. December 7, 1998. Archived from the original on October 18, 2000 at Wayback Machine; Week Sam Walton: The King of the Discounters August 8, 2004; Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas Archived May 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; Sam Walton at Find a Grave
Walmart founder Sam Walton and his wife Helen, on their wedding day, February 14, 1943. At the time, Sam was a management trainee with the J.C. Penney Company. Photo: Courtesy of Walmart
Made in America: My Story, the autobiography of Wal-Mart's founder Sam Walton; Music. Made in America, an EP by Aerosmith, 2001; Made ...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened its first Sam's Club – named for Sam Walton – on April 7, 1983, in Midwest City, Oklahoma. [2] Tomb of James Bud Walton in Memorial Park Cemetery. Together, the Walton brothers donated $150,000 to build a new home for the Columbia Chamber of Commerce and Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau in Columbia, Missouri.
The Walton family is worth more than $330 billion, dwarfing Elon Musk's $237 billion fortune. They owe some of their wealth to a savvy decision by Walmart founder Sam Walton over 70 years ago.
When Sam Walton died in 1992, he left his ownership in Wal-Mart to Helen and their four children. In 2002, as Helen Walton was the president of the Walton Family Foundation, a $300 million donation was made to the University of Arkansas, the biggest donation ever made to a public university in the United States. [ 5 ]
In September 2024, Alice Walton had a net worth of $88.9 billion, making her the 18th-richest person and the richest woman in the world. [9] The Walton family fortune is broken down as such: Jim Walton, $95.7 billion [10] S. Robson Walton, $94 billion [11] Alice Walton, $88.9 billion [12] Lukas Walton, $33.8 billion [13] Christy Walton, $16.4 ...
Ann Walton Kroenke (born December 20, 1948) [4] [1] [2] [3] is an American billionaire. Heiress to the Walmart fortune, Ann and her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie , inherited stock from their father, Bud Walton (died 1995), who was the brother and an early business partner of Walmart founder Sam Walton .