The 30 Richest Americans of All Time

1. John D. Rockefeller – Net Worth $340 Billion
2. Andrew Carnegie – Net Worth $310 Billion
3. Cornelius Vanderbilt – Net Worth $185 Billion
4. Bill Gates – Net Worth $136 Billion
5. John Jacob Astor – Net Worth $121 Billion
6. Stephen Girard – Net Worth $105 Billion
7. A.T. Stewart – Net Wort $90 Billion
8. Friedrich Weyerhauser – Net Worth $80 Billion
9. Jay Gould – Net Worth $71 Billion
10. Stephen Van Rensselaer – Net Worth $68 Billion
11. Marshall Field – Net Worth $66 Billion
12. Sam Walton – Net Worth $65 Billion
13. Warren Buffett – Net Worth $64 Billion
14. Henry Ford – Net Worth $54 Billion
15. Richard B. Mellon – Net Worth $50.5 Billion
16. Andrew W. Mellon – Net Worth $50.5 Billion
17. James G. Fair – Net Worth $49.2 Billion
18. William Weightman – Net Worth $48.1 Billion
19. Moses Taylor – Net Worth $48.1 Billion
20. Russell Sage – Net Worth $47 Billion
21. John I Blair – Net Worth $47 Billion
22. Edward Henry Harriman – Net Worth $42.7 Billion
23. Henry Huttleston Rogers – Net Worth $42.6 Billion
24. JP Morgan – Net Worth $41.5 Billion
25. Oliver H Payne – Net Worth $40.4 Billion
26. Henry C. Frick – Net Worth $39.3 Billion
27. George Pullman – Net Worth $37 Billion
28. Collis Potter Huntington – Net Worth $36 Billion
29. Peter AB Widener – Net Worth $35 Billion
30.James C. Flood – Net Worth $34 Billion