Richest Person in a Single State http://www.cnbc.com/id/101153215?__source=xfinity|hero&par=xfinity
Alabama
|
Marguerite Harbert
|
1.5
|
Alaska
|
Robert Gillam
|
0.4
|
Arizona
|
Bruce Halle Sr.
|
4.4
|
Arkansas
|
James Walton
|
37.1
|
California
|
Lawrence Ellison
|
46.4
|
Colorado
|
Charles Ergen
|
13.7
|
Connecticut
|
Raymond Dalio
|
13.4
|
Delaware
|
Leon Gorman
|
0.8
|
Florida
|
Micky Arison
|
5.9
|
Georgia
|
Anne Cox Chambers
|
11.4
|
Hawaii
|
Jay Shidler
|
0.7
|
Idaho
|
Frank Vandersloot
|
1.2
|
Illinois
|
Samuel Zell
|
3.8
|
Indiana
|
Gayle Cook
|
4.8
|
Iowa
|
Dennis Albaugh
|
1.6
|
Kansas
|
David Koch
|
41.5
|
Kentucky
|
Brad M. Kelley
|
1.9
|
Louisiana
|
Thomas Benson
|
1.3
|
Maine
|
Robert Gore
|
0.8
|
Maryland
|
Theodore Lerner
|
4.1
|
Massachusetts
|
Abigail Johnson
|
16.9
|
Michigan
|
Kenneth Dart
|
6.6
|
Minnesota
|
Whitney MacMillan
|
3.8
|
Mississippi
|
Jim Barksdale
|
0.6
|
Missouri
|
John L. Morris
|
3.8
|
Montana
|
Dennis Washington
|
5.6
|
Nebraska
|
Warren Buffett
|
59.8
|
Nevada
|
Sheldon Adelson
|
32.3
|
New Hampshire
|
Richard Cohen
|
10.0
|
New Jersey
|
David Tepper
|
7.9
|
New Mexico
|
John A Yates
|
0.8
|
New York
|
Michael Bloomberg
|
21.4
|
North Carolina
|
James Goodnight
|
7.4
|
North Dakota
|
Gary Tharaldson
|
0.9
|
Ohio
|
Leslie Wexner
|
5.2
|
Oklahoma
|
George Kaiser
|
9.8
|
Oregon
|
Phillip Knight
|
14.7
|
Pennsylvania
|
Hansjorg Wyss
|
9.2
|
Rhode Island
|
Jonathan Nelson
|
1.5
|
South Carolina
|
Anita Zucker
|
2.6
|
South Dakota
|
T. Denny Sanford
|
1.3
|
Tennessee
|
Thomas Frist Jr.
|
3.2
|
Texas
|
Michael Dell
|
16.0
|
Utah
|
Blake Roney
|
0.6
|
Vermont
|
Robert Stiller
|
1.1
|
Virginia
|
Forrest Mars Jr.
|
20.1
|
Washington
|
Bill Gates
|
70.8
|
West Virginia
|
James Justice II
|
1.6
|
Wisconsin
|
John Menard Jr
|
7.3
|
Wyoming
|
John Martin
|
0.3
|
Source: Wealth-X
(CORRECTION: An earlier version of
this story inadvertently omitted Missouri. The richest person in Missouri is
John Morris. He has a net worth value after valuation of $3.8 billion,
according to Wealth-X.)
