Jimmy Carter – $10 million

39th President Jimmy Carter’s current worth of $10 million was not always the case. When he took his post at the White House in 1976, he put his family’s peanut business in a blind trust, where it fell into debt when he lost the re-election against Reagan in 1981.

Carter managed to get out of the red and into the black by becoming a well-published author, by writing over thirty books about his life in Presidency. The former naval officer quietly celebrated his 97th birthday at his home in Georgia in October 2021, making him the oldest living President in American history.