The Richest People In America: Carl Pohlad

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#103 Carl Pohlad

$3.6 billion
Source: banking

Sold used cars before buying Marquette Bank in 1955; sold to Wells Fargo in 2001 for $1 billion in cash and stock. Today shares worth $1 billion. Also owns stakes in PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ), U.S. Bancorp (nyse: USB - news - people ), Marquette Financial. Bought baseball's Minnesota Twins in 1984; Twins Sports now run by son James, though Dad still claims to make the big decisions. Small-market overachievers will move into new, yet-to-be-named ballpark in 2010. Recently investing in radio stations around the Twin Cities. Son Robert is PepsiAmerica's chief exec. Son Bill owns River Road Entertainment; produced Sean Penn-directed Into the Wild.

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