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For contemporary lists, see List of wealthiest Americans by net worth.

Comparing wealth of individuals across large spans of time is difficult, as the value of money and assets is heavily dependent on the time period.

There are various methods of comparing individuals' wealth across time, including using simple inflation-adjusted totals or calculating an individual's wealth as a share of contemporary gross domestic product (GDP). For this reason, there is not one decisive ranking of the richest Americans in history.

Many sources cite John D. Rockefeller (–) as the richest person in the history of the United States, however this result comes not from adjusting his wealth for inflation, but by comparing his wealth to the size of the American economy at that time.^[1][2][3] Since the economy was relatively small during his time period, his wealth represented a larger portion of the total economy.

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