Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 – $3 Million
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was president at the end of the Reconstruction. His net worth was $3 million. He undertook the reconciliation of the factions left over from the Civil War. His father was a wealthy shopkeeper. Also, Hayes practiced law for 15 years and was governor of Ohio and a member of the House of Representatives. Most of his wealth was in the form of a 10,000 square-foot house named Spiegel Grove on 25 acres of land in Fremont, Ohio.
Born in abject poverty, he managed to pull himself up by his bootstraps with little formal education. There’s only one President we could be talking about…