Presidents
| Name | Party | Position | Date(s) | Estimated wealth (not necessarily adjusted for inflation so comparing to each other is speculative) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington, George | Independent | U.S. President | 1789–1797 | $525 million | |
| Roosevelt, Theodore | Republican | U.S. President | 1901–1909 | $125 million | Born wealthy |
| Jackson, Andrew | Democrat | U.S. President | 1829–1837 | $119 million | Married wealthy spouse, owned slaves, acquired real estate when native Americans were evicted |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Democratic-Republican | U.S. President | 1801–1809 | $212 million | Inherited land and slaves, but by old age was bankrupt. |
| Madison, James | Democratic-Republican | U.S. President | 1809–1817 | $101 million | At age 50, Madison inherited land and slaves from his father |
| Kennedy, John | Democrat | U.S. President | 1961–1963 | $124 million | Born wealthy |
Read more about this topic: List Of Richest American Politicians
Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)