The terms ‘poor’ and ‘president’ don’t quite go well together because it is difficult to imagine a president of a country to be poor. But however strange that may sound, the world has seen many presidents come and go who had less amount of wealth or earnings as compared to most of the other presidents.
The extent of the wealth of some of the American Presidents was so less that their net worth was even less than $1 million! Hard to believe but it is a fact which is backed up by the examples of many such Presidents in the history of American political systems.
America wasn’t always the rich country that it is today and Harry S. Truman, who was the President of America for 8 years is considered to be the poorest American president ever. His net worth was less than $1 Million. Even Calvin Hoolidge can be considered as one of the poorest American presidents followed by the 28th US president, Woodrow Wilson.
Chester A. Arthur and James A. Garfield too had net worth of less than $1 million. Some other American Presidents who are considered the poorest in terms of their total net worth are Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding.