Ranking Every U.S. President By Net Worth (Before you look, who do you think was the richest?)

Inside Gov ^ | Posted on June 25, 2015 | by Alex Greer

[Cringing Negativism Network]

http://us-presidents.insidegov.com/stories/5025/richest-us-presidents?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=ao.cm.ob.dt.5025&utm_term=dt#21-George-H-W-Bush

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Good article.

Just saying. The link to George H W Bush at #15 starts the big-wigs. Most of our most recent presidents, are not on the richest list.

I was a bit surprized who was the biggest president financially.

By comparison, Donald Trump, has more than five times as much, as any previous president. But the number one president was nevertheless quite formidable.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

http://us-presidents.insidegov.com/stories/5025/richest-us-presidents

[kinsman redeemer]

I looked through the list (painful website design)

I figured it was him. But I allowed for it to be another.

Question: what about inflation? Were the dollars normalized?

[Fresh Wind]

36 clicks to see the winner? No thanks.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Horrible design for the iPad. It keeps erroring out and redrawing, so I could not get past #1. The number given almost certainly is in nominal, not real, dollars. I figured a different Democrat, not that one. In retrospect, it was obvious. HINT: it was daddy’s money.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Well the link I posted in the comments is for #15, which is where the biggies start.

I am not really suprized, but then again I hadn’t expected that, so I guess maybe I was suprized.

[newfreep]

I stopped at the first page, too.

[ryan71]

Any chance somebody can list them here???

[FamiliarFace]

It started at the poorest for me on that page. I’m not planning on clicking 30+ pages, but I would like to see the list.

[Fresh Wind]

Well the link I posted in the comments is for #15, which is where the biggies start.

That didn't work for me. It started right at the bottom.

[chajin]

It keeps erroring out and redrawing, so I could not get past #1.

Same problem on my Lenovo. But if it's who I think it is...

HINT: it was daddy’s money

...that would be the reason.

[chajin]

It keeps erroring out and redrawing, so I could not get past #1.

Same problem on my Lenovo. But if it's who I think it is...

HINT: it was daddy’s money

...that would be the reason.

[raybbr]

Easy to figure. Most of the wealth was ill gotten.

[C. Edmund Wright]

just give up the list inside a regular post...this website is a nightmare...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Here are the top 15:

George H. W. Bush #15 Net Worth: $23 million
Grover Cleveland #14 Net Worth: $25 million
Martin Van Buren #13 Net Worth: $26 million
James Monroe #12 Net Worth: $27 million
John Tyler #11 Net Worth: $51 million
Bill Clinton #10 Net Worth: $55 million
Franklin D. Roosevelt #9 Net Worth: $60 million
Herbert Hoover #8 Net Worth: $75 million
Lyndon B. Johnson #7 Net Worth: $98 million
James Madison #6 Net Worth: $101 million
Andrew Jackson #5 Net Worth: $119 million
Theodore Roosevelt #4 Net Worth: $125 million
Thomas Jefferson #3 Net Worth: $212 million
George Washington #2 Net Worth: $525 million
John F. Kennedy #1 Net Worth: $1 billion

From the article.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Thanks for posting that....very interesting. Do you know if they normed everything to “todays dollars” - meaning was George Washington worth 525 million back then (that would be zillions today) - or is that 525M grossed up in todays dollars?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I haven’t looked yet, but your question “who was the richest” should include a qualifier, as to “before or after they held office?”

[ElayneJ]

Very interesting

[PTBAA]

I thought the Clinton “Foundation”s worth is now in the billions. I understand that technically it isn’t his, but in practicality doesn’t that make him the richest?

[scooby321]

John Kennedy had a family Trust worth 10 Million at death in 1963

I wonder how that is 1 Billion Dollars?