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Mississippi – Leslie Lampton – $1 Billion

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Leslie Lampton is the chairman of Jackson, Mississippi-based Ergon, the refining and chemicals conglomerate he founded in 1954 as a petroleum retailer with just two employees. The firm produces and transports crude and engages in oil and gas exploration. It also manufactures asphalts products, like the kind covering the country’s roads.

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