About Whitney MacMillan
Whitney MacMillan was the last member of the Cargill-MacMillan family to serve as CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company, retiring in 1995.
His great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse at the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865.
The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $114 billion in May 2019 sales across food, agriculture, financial and industrial divisions.
He sold his 50,000-acre Montana ranch in May 2016 for an undisclosed sum. The ranch, which was listed for $21.5 million, once hosted Lewis and Clark.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
CargillBirth date
09/25/29Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale UniversitySelf-made
inheritedWhitney MacMillan’s fortune is worth
76K
troy ounces of gold
70K
median U.S. household
46K
median U.S. income
0.091%
U.S. credit card volume
0.018%
GDP of the United States
0.013%
United States debt
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