--- title: President's Day: The 10 Richest Presidents in American History description: You may know a lot about our 44 presidents, but do you know how big their banks were? canonical: https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-16T15:34:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:27:09.877Z article:section: Politics og:title: And the richest President in U.S. history was... og:description: The answer will surprise you og:url: https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62bb68cba139d46c/69877f6a428a9e79e8cc7284/200186331-001-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 200186331-001 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: And the richest President in U.S. history was... twitter:description: The answer will surprise you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62bb68cba139d46c/69877f6a428a9e79e8cc7284/200186331-001-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here Are the 10 Richest Presidents in American History by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Feb 16, 2015 3:34 PM UTC  US twenty dollar bank note, detail US twenty dollar bank note, detailNick Koudis—Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Feb 16, 2015 3:34 PM UTC You may know a lot about our 44 commanders-in-chief, but do you know how big their bank accounts were? Watch the video above to see which presidents brought the most green to the White House. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/"},"headline":"Here Are the 10 Richest Presidents in American History","datePublished":"2015-02-16T15:34:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:27:09.877Z","description":"Who brought the most green to the White House?","url":"https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/","keywords":["White House","Money","politics","JFK","Wealth","President","Clinton","bush","Roosevelt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62bb68cba139d46c/69877f6a428a9e79e8cc7284/200186331-001-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62bb68cba139d46c/69877f6a428a9e79e8cc7284/200186331-001-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"200186331-001","caption":"200186331-001","creditText":"Nick Koudis—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3710962/presidents-day-richest/","name":"Here Are the 10 Richest Presidents in American History"}}]}] ```