Name
Jim Walton
Jim Walton
Bentonville, Arkansas
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Arkansas
United States
Arvest Bank Group, Inc.
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Walmart
$51,800,000,000
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The Richest Person In Every State 2019
#16 Billionaires 2019
Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.He runs the family's Arvest Bank, which boasts assets of more than $19 billion.He sat on Walmart's board for more than a decade before yielding the seat to his son, Steuart, in June 2016.Collectively Jim and other heirs of Sam Walton own about half of Walmart's stock.Walmart is under pressure to raise hourly wages after Bernie Sanders came to the company's annual meeting in June 2019 to push for higher pay.
The Walton family's namesake foundation says it has distributed over $6 billion in grants since its inception in 1987.Sam Walton's retail career began in 1945 when he opened his first dime store in Newton, Arkansas with a $20,000 loan.
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