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Elon Musk has since surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest person in the history of the United States, and of modern history, according to size of wealth compared to GDP. On December 2024 his wealth reached $474 billion dollars (1.61% of USA's GDP at that year) compared to Rockefeller's 1.5% at the height of his wealth. [5]
William Joseph Curry was born in 1821 on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas. He arrived in Key West from the Bahamas in 1837 at age 16. [1] Like many "conchs", he was a poor white Bahamian who immigrated to Key West for economic opportunity.
Griffin was the richest person in Illinois before following his hedge fund, Citadel, to Miami. Forbes says the graduate school of Arts and Sciences at Harvard will bear his name following a $300 ...
This gallery will provide a glance at the richest people in every state, where data is available, ... Florida. Richest Person: Jeff Bezos. City: Miami. Net Worth: $194 billion.
The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [2]
Rank: 3rd. Industry: Technology. Net Worth: $193 billion. More: Jeff Bezos and Billionaire Bunker, Florida: World's richest buys 3rd home in less than a year Julia Koch and Family, Palm Beach ...
Drawing of Chaires' Verdura Plantation house, Leon County, Florida. Benjamin Chaires Sr. (1786–1838) was an American planter, land owner, banker and investor in Territorial Florida, and may have been the richest man in Florida in the 1830s. He was involved in the creation of the first railroads in Florida.
The U.S. has no shortage of billionaires. While we tend to associate billionaires with large cities such as New York and Los Angeles, there are very wealthy people all over the country - around ...