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Mwai Kibaki net worth: Mwai Kibaki is a Kenyan politician who has a net worth of $50 million dollars. Mwai Kibaki was born in Gatuyaini, Kenya Colony in November 1931. He is best known for being the third President of Kenya from 2002 to 2013. In 1955 Kibaki was an Assistant Sales Manager for Shell Company of Easy Africa. He was an assistant lecturer in economics at his alma mater Makerere University from 1958 to 1960. From 1960 to 1963 he was an Executive Officer for the Kenya African National Union. He served as a member of Parliament from 1963 to 1974. During that time he served as the Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Commerce and Industry. From 1970 to 1983 he was the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. He has also been the Minister of Health and Minister of Home Affairs and National Heritage. He was the 2nd Leader of Official Opposition from 1998 to 2002. Kibaki served as the 4th Vice President of Kenya under Daniel Toroitich arap Moi from 1978 to 1988. In 2002 Kibaki defeated Uhuru Kenyatta to become President. In 2007 he was re-elected with controversial circumstances. He is married to First Lady of Kenya Lucy Muthoni and the couple has four children and three grandchildren.

Girma Wolde-Giorgis net worth: Girma Wolde-Giorgis is an Ethiopian politician who has a net worth of $1.5 million dollars. Girma Wolde-Giorgis was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in December 1924. He was the President of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013. Girma received certificates in Management, Air Traffic Management, and Air Traffic Control. Girma was one of the first Ethiopians in the Ethiopian air force. He wrote a book on the fundamentals of the airlines. He condemned the apartheid in South Africa and was an activist. He graduated from the Oletta Military Academy in 1944 as a Sub-Lieutenant. In 1951 Girma became Director General of the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Planning. He became head of Civil Aviation of Eritrea in 1955. In 1957 he became Director General of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority. In 1961 Girma became a member of the lower house of the Imperial Ethiopian Parliament. He was elected house speaker for three years in a row. In 2000 he became a member of the House of People’s Representatives of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Girma was elected in 2001 by a unanimous vote from the Ethiopian Parliament. He was then re-elected in 2007. The Ethiopian president does not have a lot of power, as most of that power lies with the Prime Minster. In 2013 he was succeeded by Mulatu Teshome. Girma is married and has five children.

Benazir Bhutto Net Worth: Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who had a net worth of $850 million. Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was born in Karachi, Sindh, Dominion of Pakistan, as the eldest child of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Benazir satisfied her lust for knowledge abroad as she earned undergraduate degrees from Radcliffe College (1973) in the U.S. and Oxford (1976) in England. She was already in Pakistan when her father was deposed, imprisoned, and finally executed after a 1977 military coup. Benazir herself got imprisoned few consecutive times, so she had no other choice but to leave for exile in London. Over the years, Benazir Bhutto began to be politically active via her father’s political party, the liberal Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and got back to Pakistan in 1986. Her political pedigree and reformist attitude, accompanied with her stunning looks, helped her became prime minister in 1988. She had since turned into one of the most prominent women in the world and was often regarded as a symbol of progress in women’s rights. However, both of her terms as prime minister (1988-90 and 1993-96) ended in controversy, with corruption charges against Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari. She was forced into exile once again in 1999, but this time she spent her nine-year self-exile in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October of 2007 to lead her party in upcoming national elections. Unfortunately, she was assassinated at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi by an attacker who then blew himself up. The next year, Benazir Bhutto was named one of the seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee net worth and salary: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian politician who had a net worth of $2 million dollars. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born in Gwalior State in December 1924. He is best known for being the 11th Prime Minister of India. He served as India’s Prime Minister for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. He has been elected to the lower house of India’s Parliament nine times, and to the upper house twice. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He served as Minister of External Affairs. Vajpayee has had health problems and retired from active politics in 2009. He has had three knee replacement surgeries. In 2009 he suffered from a stroke. He has received various awards. Vajpayee has also written several social and political books. He has published five autobiographies, and has also authored poetry books. During his role as Prime Minister India conducted nuclear tests in 1998. In 1999 Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was hijacked. A group of masked, armed men attacked the Parliament building in 2001. In March 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton visited India and met with Vajpayee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee died on August 16, 2018.

Scott Lee Cohen net worth: Scott Lee Cohen is an American politician and businessman who has a net worth of $10 million dollars. Scott Lee Cohen was born in June 1965. Cohen made most of his money in real estate and runs a pawnbroker shop called State Jewelry & Loans, which he inherited from his father. He found the citizens group Rod Must Resign in 2009 urging then Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign. He campaigned in the 2010 primaries and promoted himself as a small business owner of Cohen’s Green Cleaning. Cohen spent more than $2 million on his campaign. He ended up winning the Democratic Party’s nomination to be Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Cohen withdrew under pressure relating to his personal life and background. In 2005 he was arrested for domestic abuse but the charges were dropped. He admitted to using steroids, which his ex-wife alleged caused fits of rage towards her. In May 2010 Cohen announced his candidacy for governor of Illinois as an independent. He only received 3.64% of votes. In 2013 Cohen starred in the reality series Hardcore Pawn: Chicago on truTV. In late 2013 his house was put up for foreclosure auction. In 2014 Cohen was sued alleging a home he owns that has been leased to a halfway house was operating without a permit.

Jerry Brown net worth: Jerry Brown is an American politician who has a net worth of $10 million dollars. Jerry Brown, aka Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. was born in San Francisco, California in April 1938. Brown served as Governor of California from 2011 to January 2019. He graduated with a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1964. Brown was a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1971. He became Secretary of State of California in 1971 and held office until 1975. In 1975 he became California’s 34th Governor and held the office until 1983. From 1989 to 1991 he was the chairman of the California Democratic Party. He was the Mayor of Oakland, California from 1999 to 2007 and the Attorney General of California from 2007 to 2011. In 1976, 1980, and 1992 Brown sought the Democratic nominations to be President of the United States. In 1982 he was unsuccessful as the Democratic candidate for United States Senate. His father Pat Brown was the 32nd Governor of California. His two terms as Governor make him California’s longest serving governor. He also holds the distinctions of being the oldest California governor, and at one time was the sixth-youngest. In 1990 Jerry Brown married Anne Gust, the former chief administrative officer for The Gap.

The Bush Family net worth: The Bush family is a prominent American political family who has a combined net worth of $400 million. The Bush family has built their net worth from a family of successful bankers and businessmen that spans back three generations. To date, The Bush family has produced two U.S. Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, two Governors, one Vice President and two Presidents. The family is of both English and German descent. The Bushes have been described as one of the most successful political dynasties in American history. The elders, George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush, were married from 1945 until her death in April 2018. He died a few months later, in November 2018. The Bush compound is located near Kennebunkport, Maine, and has been in the Bush family since 1903. Ex-President George H. W. Bush uses this estate as his summer home, which he inherited, when his parents passed away. It was originally built by St. Louis banker George H. Walker.  While he was President, George W. Bush’s “Summer White House,” also known as the “Western White House,” was the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. Richard Bush, who is believed to be the earliest known patrilineal member of the Bush family, lived from 1696 to 1732, in Bristol, Plymouth Colony. The Bush family has many connections to other prominent families, such as, wealthy American banker and businessman George Herbert “Bert” Walker . Walker was the grandfather of the 41st President, George H. W. Bush. George H. W. Bush’s wife, First Lady Barbara Bush, is a second cousin of Franklin Pierce (14th President). The Bushes are distantly related to fellow Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. George W. Bush is the 11th cousin, through Samuel and Sarah Soole Hinckley of 17th-century Massachusetts, to the President Barack Obama. George is 9th cousins to his Presidential opponent John Kerry. The Bushes also have ties to Winston Churchill, through three different families, the Coes of New York, the Sumners of Massachusetts, and the Shermans of Rhode Island. Some of the Bush’s Mayflower descendants include John Howland, John Tilley, Henry Sampson, and possibly Francis Cooke. Samuel P. Bush was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers, and a close adviser to President Hoover. He lived from 1863 to 1948. Prescott Bush served as a US Senator from Connecticut. Jeb Bush was the 43rd Governor of Florida, and is the second eldest son of George H.W. Bush. There are many different careers within the Bush family, in addition to their political ties. Lauren Bush is a model for Tommy Hilfiger. Marvin Bush is a venture capitalist, Jonathan S. Bush, is an insurance executive, and Billy Bush , who is the former host of Access Hollywood.

Jack Abramoff Net Worth: Jack Abramoff is an American and former lobbyist and businessman who has a net worth of negative $44 million dollars. Born February 28, 1958 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jack Abramoff was at the center of an extensive corruption investigation that led to his conviction as well as 21 other persons pleading either guilty or being found guilty; persons that included White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bobby Ney and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides. Abrams was prosecuted for the Jack Abramoff Native American lobbying scandal (a scandal involving the defrauding of Native American tribes who were Abramoff’s lobbying clients as well as a related bribery of public officials). That same year he was also prosecuted for his dealings with SunCruz Casinos (charges involved a guilty plea by Abramoff to conspiring to commit wire fraud and mail fraud). He was sentenced to six years in federal prison, served 43 months and was released December 3, 2010. Jack was also ordered to personally pay $44 million in restitution for defrauding the Indian Tribes. Prior to these scandals, Abramoff was a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation (allegedly financed by apartheid South Africa) and served on the board of directors for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. Yet other Abramoff-associated scandals include an investigation by a grand jury in Guam over an alleged plot to control functions of the courts of that territory, a suspect multibillion-dollar Homeland Security contract and another Native American-related scandal involving the Choctaw Indian Tribe. In 2010, the feature film Casino Jack, which chronicled Abramoff’s controversial career and illegal track record, was released and starred Kevin Spacey as Abramoff. At the peak of his success, Jack Abramoff reportedly earned over $20 million per year. He also opened a Kosher restaurant in DC called “Signatures” that has long since been shut down.

Newt Gingrich Net Worth: Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich an American politician who has a net worth of $9 million. Newt Gingrich has earned his net worth with the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, which he served as the 58th Speaker of the House and as a consultant and founder of several large corporations. In the decade after he left government, his for-profit companies earned a combined $100 million in revenues. As a consultant, Newt controversially received nearly $2 million in consulting fees from the pseudo-government backed corporation Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac is controversial because of it’s role in the 2008 housing crisis caused by a push for banks to make predatory loans to people with little to no income. Gingrich is also a college professor, historian, and author of nearly 30 books. During his career in the house he was the Republican opposition to President Bill Clinton. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he was the child of a career military family. Newt was one of the leading Republican candidates for President in the 2012 election but eventually was not chosen to be the Republican candidate. Other Presidential Candidate net worths:Mitt Romney Net WorthRon Paul Net WorthBarack Obama Net Worth

Harold Ford Jr Net Worth: Harold Ford, Jr. is an American politician who has a net worth of $3 million dollars. Born in 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee, Harold Ford, Jr. grew up in a family of politicians. His father was former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr., and the family was well known in their Memphis community. Ford graduated with an American history degree from the University of Pennsylvania and went to work as a staff aide in the Senate Budget Committee. A year later, he accepted a position in the United States Department of Commerce. Ford attended the University of Michigan Law School, graduating with his J.D. in 1996. That year, his father decided not to run for a 12th term in Congress and Ford threw his name in the ring. He quickly became the Democratic Party favorite and was elected when he was 26 years old. Ford has been reelected four times and delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2000. He lost his 2002 attempt to unseat Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic Leader. Ford sat on the House Budget Committee and the House Committee on Financial Services. He lost his bid for the Senate in Tennessee in 2006 to Republican Bob Corker. He began teaching at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas at Austin and New York University, and working for Morgan Stanley. His voting history includes votes in favor of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which some say sparked the economic crisis, and invading Iraq. He supported the Federal Marriage Act defining marriage as a union between a man and woman and identifies himself as pro-life. Ford favors universal healthcare coverage, embryonic stem cell research and reforming drug policy. He and his wife, Emily Threlkeld, have been married since 2008.