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Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire. Who Was the First Billionaire?

✇NYT - Top Stories
By: John S.W. MacDonald
John D. Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil baron, became America’s first billionaire in 1916. Like Elon Musk’s ascension, the milestone made headlines.

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John D. Rockefeller Sr., in Lakewood, N.J., in 1933. Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil baron, became a billionaire in 1916.
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