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- Sam Walton
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- March 29, 1918
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- 🇺🇸 United States
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- Business Leader
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Biography
Sam Walton is 108 years old, a business leader, from United States.
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American philanthropist, military veteran and business magnate best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. From 1982 to 1988, Walton was the richest person in the United States.
His family has remained the richest family in the U.S. for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around $440.62 billion US as of January 2026. In 1992 at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas.
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