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Sam Brownback's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million

Samuel Dale Brownback was born on 12 September 1956, in Garnett, Kansas USA, of German descent, and is a politician and diplomat, best known for being the 46th Governor of Kansas. He’s served in the position since 2011, and is a member of the Republican Party. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Sam Brownback? As of late-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $10 million, mostly earned through a successful career in politics. He also served in the US House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district, and in the Senate. As he continues his endeavors, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.

Sam Brownback Net Worth $10 million

Sam grew up in a farming family, and was heavily involved with the Future Farmers of America (FFA), serving as the president of his local and state chapters before becoming FFA vice- president from 1996 to 1997. He attended Kansas State University, and became the student body president there. He graduated in 1979, and then worked as a radio broadcaster for KSAC for some time, before completing his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas in 1982.

Brownback worked as an attorney, and in 1986 became the Kansas Secretary of Agriculture. Four years later, he was accepted into the White House Fellow program which led him to the Office of the US Trade Representative, becoming the Secretary of Agriculture until 1993. The following year, he was elected to the US House of Representatives and would stay there for three years before winning the special election for the US Senate, defeating Sheila Frahm.

Sam would go on to win two more general elections to the Senate, and was a member of several committees, including the Judiciary Committee, Joint Economic Committee, and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He led the effort to enact the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000 alongside Congressman Chris Smith, allowing stronger enforcement against trafficking cases. In 2006, he formed an exploratory committee which would lead to his presidential bid, stressing his fiscal conservatism throughout his campaign, but didn’t have strong support during campaigning, and eventually dropped out of the race, going on to support John McCain’s campaign.

In 2009 Brownback filed paperwork with the intention of running for governor of Kansas, going on to win the campaign with 63.3% of the vote. He focused on a platform that included increased spending on education, a proposed tax reform, and would also sign three anti-abortion bills in 2011. He made a very controversial move to try and eliminate the Kansas Arts Commission by executive order, and controversies would continue with him signing a finance bill for the education sector, eliminating mandatory due process hearings. He also declined a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, in order to set up an insurance exchange for the planned federal health care reform law. In 2012, he would go on to make one of the biggest income tax cuts in the history of the state, which had mixed reception, however, he would win his next gubernatorial campaign in 2014 against Paul Davis. In 2017, he was nominated as the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom for the Trump Administration.

For his personal life, it is known that Brownback married Mary Stauffer – the Stauffer family previously owned Stauffer Communications until its 1995 sale. They have five children, two of whom are adopted. Brownback converted to Catholicism in 2002.

Started with Net Worth Post in September 2014. Before that, Senior Writer at Creative Horizons. Earned a Journalism degree from Northwestern University.

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George Weah Net Worth

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George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah was born on 1st October 1966, in Monrovia, Liberia and is now the president of Liberia, and a former star football (soccer) player. He played in the position of striker for 14 years in various clubs in France, Italy and England, and was named the World Player of the Year, European Footballer of the Year and African Footballer of the Year.

How much is the net worth of George Weah? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $85 million, as of the data presented in early 2018, accumulated largely from his football career.

George Weah Net Worth $85 million

To begin with, Weah was born in poverty in a district of Monrovia. At the age of 15, he started playing football at Young Survivors’ youth team, before moving to other teams in his country, such as Invincible Eleven and Mighty Barrole, with whom he won some domestic trophies, including the championship and The Liberia Cup. Weah matriculated from the Muslim Congress and then attended Wells Harington High School in Monrovia, abandoning the last year to focus on his football career, but actually matriculated from high school in 2006 after ending his career in football, and then attended Parkwood University in London, obtaining a sports management diploma. In 2011, Weah graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Miami, and then obtained a master’s degree in 2013.

Concerning his professional career, Weah’s skills were discovered by Arsene Wenger, and so George moved to Europe in 1988, signing a contract with Monaco. During his stay in Monaco, he won the title of the African Footballer of the Year in 1989, the French Cup with the team in 1991, and helped the team to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1992. Weah was then transferred to Paris Saint-Germain, with whom he won the French Cup in 1993 and 1995, and the League Cup in 1995. In the 1994-1995 season, he also became the UEFA Champions League top scorer. He was once again named the African Footballer of the Year in 1994, before in 1995 signing a contract with leading Italian club AC Milan. Afterwards a period full of achievements followed, both individually and with the club team; 1995, George Weah won the Golden Balloon and was named World Footballer of the Year, becoming the first African footballer to win these trophies. Then, Weah twice reached the Italian Cup finals in 1998. and played in the Italian Super Cup. In the winter of 2000, Weah was lent to Chelsea until the end of the season, and with whom Weah won the FA Cup.

Internationally, for Liberia Weah played 60 games over 20 years, scoring 22 goals, but being a minnow in football, the country only managed to qualify for the African Cup of Nations twice, but never progressing past the group stage.

George ended his playing career in 2003.

Regarding his political career, Weah formed the political party Congress for Democratic Change in 2004, and in 2005 Weah ran for the presidency of Liberia, although at that stage poor formal education and lack of political experience were considered the main reasons why he was inappropriate to lead the country, in contrast to the main counter-candidate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, educated at Harvard University with administrative experience both in the Liberian government and in the World Bank and the United Nations. Weah continued to be involved in politics as the leader of the CDC, leading the party in the campaign for the 2009 legislative elections. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the post of vice-president losing to Joseph Boakai. In 2014, Weah was elected a senator in the Liberian Parliament, but in the three-year term, he only occasionally attended Senate meetings and contributed no legislative initiative. However, in 2017, he again announced his candidacy for the presidency. On 27th December 2017 he was elected President of Liberia, and sworn in on 22 January 2018.

Finally, in the personal life of George Weah, he is married to Kler Vea. They have three children.

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Born Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir on the 1st January 1944 in Hosh Bannaga, Sudan, he is a Sudanese politician, best known to the world as the seventh President of the aforementioned country, serving in the position since 1989.

Have you ever wondered how rich Omar al-Bashir is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that al-Bashir’s net worth is as high as $1 billion, an amount earned through his political career. However, there is a strong suspicion that Omar has billions of dollars in foreign bank accounts.

Omar al-Bashir Net Worth $1 Billion

Omar is of Arab ancestry; his descendants come from the Al-Bedairyya Al-Dahmashyya tribe, which is a Bedouin tribe and now a part of a much larger Ja’alin coalition. He spent his early years in his hometown, and then moved to the national capital Khartoum, where he finished secondary education.

Once he finished secondary school, Omar joined the Sudanese Army, and was soon sent to study at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo, while he also finished studies at the Sudan Military Academy in Khartoum in 1966. During his military service, in no time he was promoted to paratroop officer, and then served in the Egyptian Army in the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria joined forces against Israel. Two years later he became a Sudanese military attaché in the United Arab Emirates, and on return to his home country, was named a garrison commander, then in 1981 he was appointed as the commander of an armored parachute brigade.

Throughout the ‘80s Omar was building a name for himself in the military of Sudan, and reached the rank of colonel. He led the group of army officers in the Sudanese coup d’état in 1989 when he and his loyal officers dethroned Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi in a bloodless military coup. He formed a military government that put all political bodies and operations out of power, and implemented an Islamic legal code for the whole country. He assumed several leading positions of the country, including chief of state, chief of the armed forces, prime minister and minister of defense, while also creating the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, which was the leading political body of the state at the time, with Omar as its Chairman. Before he became President officially, he collaborated with Hassan al-Turabi, who at the time was the leader of the National Islamic Front, and the two started implementing Sharia law across the country.

He named himself President of Sudan in 1993 and disbanded all political parties that were opposed him. Three years later, elections were held and Omar became President of Sudan with a quasi-legal support. Since then, he has been elected President two more times, however, the elections are regarded as questionable for their validity, and Omar himself has been accused of corruption, but he remains Sudanese President.

Aside from corruption, Omar’s reign is also marked by the second civil war which lasted until 2005, and resulted in creation of a new country, South Sudan in 2011, then war in Darfur, for which he was charged with mass crimes against civilians, however, apparently due to the lack of evidence, charges were dropped. Subsequently, military intervention in Yemen has occured, during which Omar joined Saudi Arabia against the Shia Houthis and other Islamic people that are loyal to dethroned Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Omar’s net worth has benefited greatly from his reign, since Sudan has become one of the most oil exploited countries, from which sales Omar has massively benefited.

Regarding his personal life, Omar has two wives; he is married to his cousin Fatima Khalid, and Widad Babiker Omer. Omar doesn’t have his own children but is a father to a number of children of his wife Widad, as she was previously married to Ibrahim Shamsaddin, who was a part of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation but had tragically died after his helicopter crashed.

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Born Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev on the 2nd March 1931, in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, then Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he is a lawyer and politician, best known to the world as the last President of the Soviet Union who instituted perestroika and glasnost, and serving in the position from 1990 to 1991.

Have you ever wondered how rich Mikhail Gorbachev is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Gorbachev’s net worth is as high as $5 million, an amount earned largely through his successful political career, which has been active since the ‘50s.

Mikhail Gorbachev Net Worth $5 Million

A son of Ukrainian and Russian migrants, he endured the Soviet famine of 1932-1933. He was primarily raised by his maternal grandparents, since his parents were busy working, as his mother was a kolkhoz worker, while his father worked as a harvester operator, but also later served in World War II. During his teens, Mikhail followed in the footsteps of his father, working on collective farms and operating combine harvesters. After finished high school, Mikhail enrolled at the Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1955, earning a law degree. Mikhail then moved to Stavropol; even before graduation, Mikhail had joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and with the start of the ‘60s he became more and more involved in politics. In 1963 he was named as Head of the Department of Party Organs in the Stavropol Regional Committee, and seven years later became the First Party Secretary, and by that became one of the youngest people of the party to hold such a position. During his stint as First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, Mikhail focused on improving the lives of simple people, mostly farmers, since he himself had lived the life of a farmer, before making progress as a politician.

After several years of success, Mikhail was named as the Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and also the Chairman of the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs, while in 1978 he was promoted to the Central Committee’s Secretariat for Agriculture position. Little by little Mikhail was becoming one of the most influential people of the party, and then in 1980 became a full member of the CPSU. Just four years later he was made General Secretary of the CPSU following the deaths of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chemenko, becoming the youngest party leader. His power and influence became to rise, and he instituted several new policies that improved the lives of the people of the Soviet Union.

He became known for “perestroika”, and “glasnost”, giving his people the freedom of speech. His popularity rose through the roof, and in 1988 he was made the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and then in 1990 he was elected as the first executive President of the Soviet Union, earning 59% of the votes of the Deputies. Unfortunately, his reign didn’t last long as his new laws and policies led quite deliberately to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Following the end of his presidency, Mikhail remained active in Russian politics, forming two parties along the way, Social Democratic Party of Russia (2001-2004), and Union of Social Democrats (2007-2014), but didn’t have much success.

Thanks to his largely successful career, Mikhail received numerous awards and honors, including Order of St. Andrew in 2011, then Order of Lenin three times, then Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, while in 1989 he was the recipient of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal award, among many other recognitions, which include several honorary doctorates from prestigious universities, including Durham University, Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Liège.

Regarding his personal life, Mikhail met his wife, Raisa Titarenko, during his studies at Moscow State University. The two married in 1953 and had their only child in 1957, a daughter Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya. His wife passed away in 1999, after losing the battle to leukemia.

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