The Richest Person In Every State 2018

Alabama: Jimmy Rane – $700 million Jimmy Rane is the founder and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving. He unseated Gary Drummond, the previous richest person in Alabama Alaska: Leonard Hyde, Jonathan Rubini, and families – $340 million Hyde and Rubini co-founded and co-own Anchorage based JL Properties. Arizona: Diane Halle – $6 billion Widow of Founder of Discount Tires. Diane inherited her fortune from her late husband. Arkansas: Jim Walton – $39 billion California: Mark Zuckerberg – $72 billion Colorado: Charles Ergen – $17 billion Founder of DISH Network Connecticut: Ray Dalio – $14 billion Bridgewater Associates, investment management Delaware: Robert Gore & Elizabeth Snyder – $830 million Inventor of Gore-Tex, sister of inventor of Gore Tex Florida: Thomas Petterfy – $14 billion Founded Interactive Brokers, Financial Services Georgia: Jim Kennedy – $8.2 billion Heir to Cox Enterprises, cable TV, radio, newspapers Hawaii: Pierre Omidyar – $7.8 billion Ebay founder Idaho: Frank Vandersloot –  $1.2 billion Founder of Multi Level Marketing Health & Wellness company Melaleuca Illinois: Ken Griffin – $9 billion Citadel LLC hedge fund Indiana: Carl Cook – $6.5 billion Cook Group, medical equipment manufacturer Iowa: Harry Stine $2.6 billion Agriculture, Stine seed group Kansas: Charles Koch – $47 billion Chairman of Koch Industries, largest private company in the US Kentucky: B. Wayne Hughes – $2.4 billion Co-founded Public Storage Louisiana: Tom Benson – $2.8 billion Owns Car dealerships, NFL’s New Orleans Saints, NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans Maine: Susan Alfond $1.4 billion Her father sold stock in Berkshire Hathaway to found his shoe company. Maryland: Ted Lerner – $5.8 billion Lerner Enterprises, real estate, Washington Nationals Massachusetts: Abigail Johnson – $12 billion Fidelity Investments Michigan: Dan Gilbert –  $4.2 billion Founded Quicken Loans, owns Cleveland Cavaliers Minnesota: Whitney MacMillan $4.3 billion Cargill grain storage Mississippi: Leslie Lampton – $2.4 billion Founded Ergon Inc, oil refinery and distribution Missouri: Stanley Kroenke – $7.7 billion Real estate mogul. Married to Walmart heiress. Owns the L.A. Rams, Denver Nuggets, and Colorado Avalanche Montana: Dennis Washington – $6.1 billion The Washington Companies, mining, construction Nebraska: Warren Buffett – $75 billion Nevada: Sheldon Adelson – $35 billion New Hampshire: Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli  – $1.1 billion Coty cosmetics New Jersey: Donald Newhouse – $11.1 billion Media mogul New Mexico: Mack Chase $910 million Energy and oil New York: Michael Bloomberg – $56 billion North Carolina: James Goodnight – $10 billion Co-founded technology company SAS Software North Dakota: Gary Tharaldson – $900 million Tharaldson Companies, hotels, real estate Ohio: Leslie Wexner – $6.9 billion Limited Brands, Victoria’s Secret, Bath and Body Works Oklahoma: Harold Hamm – $10 billion Continental Resources, oil exploration Oregon: Phil Knight – $25 billion Nike founder Pennsylvania: Mary Alice Dorrance Malone – $3.1 billion Campbell Soup heiress Rhode Island: Jonathan Nelson – $2 billion Providence Equity Partners, investment firm South Carolina: Anita Zucker – $3.1 billion Inherited InterTech Group upon death of her husband South Dakota: T. Denny Sanford – $1.3 billion Founded and owns First Premier Bank Tennessee: Thomas Frist – $7.6 billion Co-founded Hospital Corp of America Texas: Alice Walton – $38 billion Utah: Gail Miller – $1.2 billion Automotive sales through Larry H. Miller Group and bought Utah Jazz with husband Vermont: John Abele $3.3 billion Founder Boston Scientific medical devices Virginia: Jacqueline Mars – $28 billion Mars Candy Company heiress Washington: Jeff Bezos – $105 billion West Virginia: Jim Justice II – $1.68 billion Bluestone Industries, coal mining, current Governor of West Virginia Wisconsin: John Menard Jr. – $12.5 billion Menards hardware and home improvement chain Wyoming: Christy Walton – $31 billion