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Who is the richest person in Missouri? See Forbes Top 5 List

Johnny Morris still has a lot of money, but according to Forbes, the founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops is no longer the richest person in Missouri.

This place now belongs to David Steward, the founder and chairman of World Wide Technology, who also checked the nation as the richest black American.

According to Forbes, Steward from St. Louis grew up in the separate south with seven siblings. His father worked as a mechanic, caretaker and garbage collector.

He completed Central Missouri University and had several jobs before he was grust in 1990.

According to Forbes, Steward's net assets are 11.4 billion US dollars.

Morris, the long -time native of Ozarks, becomes second with 10 billion US dollars.

Top five richest Missourians

1. David StewardSt. Louis, 11.4 billion US dollars

2. John MorrisSpringfield, $ 10 billion

3 .. Pauline MacMillan KeinathSt. Louis, 7.4 billion US dollars

It is believed that Keinath, the largest shareholder of Cargill, the largest food company in the world, with an estimated 13% participation. Her great -grandfather, WW Cargill, founded the business in 1865 as the only grain warehouse at the end of a railway line in Iowa. The family still has around 90% of Cargill, in the food, in agriculture, in which financial and industrial departments achieved $ 160 billion of $ 160 billion.

4. Jim KavanaughSt. Louis, 7 billion US dollars

Kavanaugh is CEO of Stewards World Wide Technology. He founded the company with Steward after the time as a professional football player and was a member of the 1984 Olympic team. WWT is now a 20 -billion dollar company (sale) that sells software and hardware to customers, including Citi, Verizon and the Federal Government.

5. Rodger RineySt. Louis, 3.9 billion US dollars

Riney is a co -founder of the Discount broker company Scottrade, which is now part of Charles Schwab. He founded the company in 1980. He bought his partner in 1985 and expanded the company to 3 million customer accounts with total assets managed by $ 170 billion. In 2017 he was sold out for 4 billion US dollars on Joe Rickett's TD Ameritrade for 4 billion US dollars. Since then he has donated 40 million US dollars to Washington University to explore the disease and to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

Elsewhere

The Waltons of Walmart in Arkansas still have the lead, although Rob Walton took first place from his brother Jim Walton with 112 billion US dollars. Her sister Alice Walton, 104 billion US dollars, is still the richest woman in the world, but is in Texas behind the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, with a personal assets of 388 billion dollars.

Stephen Herzog is an editor and writer of the Columbia Daily Tribune and Springfield News Leader. Contact him at sherzog@gannett.com.

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