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 Delaware – Robert Gore – $675 Million

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Bob Gore is chairman of W.L. Gore & Associates, the manufacturing company behind Gore-Tex that his late mother and father founded in 1958. Gore, who received a chemical-engineering doctorate from the University of Minnesota, joined the firm in 1963 and ran the company as CEO from 1976 to 2000. It was Gore who stumbled upon Gore-Tex while working in the lab one night.

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