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The richest family in America

1. Walton Family

Walton Family

The town of Bentonville is the hometown of the Walton family. Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton of the Walton family, and the Walton family holds 48% of Wal-Mart's shares, worth $136.9 billion, making them the richest family in the United States to date. .

2. The Koch Family

Koch Family

The Koch Family The Koch Group was founded by Charles Koch and his brother David Koch***. The second largest privately held group in the United States. The Koch family is also considered one of the most influential families in the world. As early as their previous generation, they were very successful entrepreneurs.

3. Mars Family

Mars Family

Little Forester Mars and his brothers and sisters (John, Jacqueline) *** share Mars, with sales of $31.6 billion, is the world's largest candy company, thanks in part to its $23 billion acquisition of chewing gum maker Wrigley's in 2008. The candy maker's best-known brands include Milky Way, M&M's, 3 Musketeers, Twix, Skittles and Snickers; Snickers is said to be named after A favorite horse from the Mars family.

4. MacMillan Family

MacMillan Family

Cargill, headquartered in Minnesota, USA, was founded by Mr. William Wallace Cargill in Iowa in 1865. Founded by Watts, it moved its factory to Minnesota in 1868 and moved its headquarters to Wisconsin in 1875. After 150 years of operation, Cargill has become a multinational professional company in bulk commodity trading, processing, transportation and risk management.

5. Cox Family

Cox Family

The Cox family runs a media empire headquartered in Atlanta. The company owns companies such as Cox Communications, Cox Media Group, Auto Trader Group and Kelley Blue Book.

6. Hearst Family

Hearst Family

The Hearst family is very wealthy and influential in the media industry. William., founder of Hearst Corporation. Rudolf. William Randolph Hearst was once known as the "gold medal writer" and the king of the newspaper industry. Forbes reports that the Hearst family currently owns 49 newspapers and about 340 magazines around the world.

7. Pritzker Family

Pritzker Family

The Pritzker family, which owns the Hyatt Hotel Group, is one of the richest families in the United States. In order to avoid taxes , the family founder designed more than 1,000 unrelated family trusts to hold the family's property, and expected that the family property maintained by this structure would last until at least 2042. However, despite the complex trust system binding the equity, due to increasingly intensified family conflicts, these assets were eventually realized and divided through sales, listings, etc. Brothers and sisters who once fought against each other have climbed onto the rich list.

8. The SC Johnson family of the United States

S.C. Johnson

The SC Johnson family of the United States (English S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. is literally translated as "S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.") is a global manufacturer of household cleaning and consumer chemicals. The Johnson family of companies also includes Johnson Financial Group, Johnson Diversified Companies and Johnson Outdoors.

9. Johnson Family

Johnson Family

Edward C. Johnson II established Fidelity Investment Company in 1946 ( Fidelity). Today, the company ranks among the second largest Mutual fund companies in the world. The company is headquartered in Boston, and his son Johnson III and grandson currently own 49% of the company's shares.