America’s elite lives vastly different lives than the rest of us. Those at the top have incomes that are orders of magnitude higher than the average person. Even when we compare their individual wealth with that of households in the states in which they live, there’s no comparison.

 

According to data from Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth, the wealthiest members of each state did not achieve their fortunes in the same way. They are:

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Heirs/Heiresses
  • Widows

Here  the list Of the wealthiest person by state :

Alabama: Marguerite Harbert – $1 Billion

Alaska: Robert Gillam – $700 Million

Arizona: Bruce Halle – $4.8 Billion

Arkansas: Jim Walton – $35.7 Billion

California: Larry Ellison – $49.4 Billion

Colorado: Charles Ergen – $15 Billion

Connecticut: Ray Dalio – $14.4 Billion

Delaware: Robert Gore – $830 Million

Florida: Charles Johnson – $8.1 Billion

Georgia: Anne Cox Chambers – $16.1 Billion

Hawaii: Pierre Omidyar – $7.9 Billion

Idaho: Frank VanderSloot – $1.2 Billion

Illinois: Ken Griffin – $5.5 Billion

Indiana: Gayle Cook – $6 Billion

Iowa: Harry Stine – $3.1 Billion

Kansas: Charles Koch – $41.4 Billion

Kentucky: Bradley Hughes – $2.3 Billion

Louisiana: Tom Benson – $1.5 Billion

Maine: Leon Gorman – $860 Million

Maryland: Ted Lerner – $4.6 Billion

Massachusetts: Abigail Johnson – $18.2 Billion

Michigan: Hank & Doug Meijer – $7.9 Billion

Minnesota: Whitney MacMillan – $5.3 Billion

Mississippi: Leslie Lampton – $2.4 Billion

Missouri: Jack Taylor – $13.5 Billion

Montana: Dennis Washington – $6.1 Billion

Nebraska: Warren Buffett – $63.1 Billion

Nevada: Sheldon Adelson – $35.7 Billion

New Hampshire: Rick Cohen – $11.2 Billion

New Jersey: David Tepper – $10 Billion

New Mexico: Maloof Brothers – $1 Billion

New York: David Koch – $41.4 Billion

North Carolina: James Goodnight – $8.1 Billion

North Dakota: Gary Theraldson – $900 Million

Ohio: Leslie Wexner – $5.7 Billion

Oklahoma: Harold Hamm – $19.7 Billion

Oregon: Phil Knight – $19 Billion

Pennsylvania: Mary Alice Dorace Malone – $3 Billion

Rhode Island: Jonathan Nelson – $1.8 Billion

South Carolina: Anita Zucker – $2.7 Billion

South Dakota: T. Denny Sanford – $1.3 Billion

Tennessee: Thomas Frist – $6.9 Billion

Texas: Alice Walton – $35.3 Billion

Utah: Jon Huntsman, Sr. – $1.2 Billion

Vermont: John Abele – $3.3 Billion

Virginia: Jacqueline Mars – $20 Billion

Washington: Bill Gates – $80 Billion

West Virginia: Jim Justice – $1.6 Billion

Wisconsin: John Menard – $7.7 Billion

Wyoming: Christy Walton – $36.7 Billion

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