He was also tapped by QEBH, the well-known secret society on campus honoring the top senior men, and the national military honor society Scabbard and Blade. Also during his time in college, Walton joined the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. During this time, he worked various odd jobs, including waiting tables in exchange for meals. He attended the University of Missouri as an ROTC cadet. Hickman High School in Columbia, he was voted "Most Versatile Boy".Īfter high school, Walton decided to attend college, hoping to find a better way to help support his family. In addition, he sold magazine subscriptions. Afterwards, he would deliver Columbia Daily Tribune newspapers on a paper route. He milked the family cow, bottled the surplus, and drove it to customers. Growing up during the Great Depression, he did chores to help make financial ends meet for his family as was common at the time. Įventually the family moved to Columbia, Missouri. In adult life, Walton became a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. While attending eighth grade in Shelbina, Missouri, Sam became the youngest Eagle Scout in the state's history. They moved from one small town to another for several years, mostly in Missouri. He and his family (now with another son, James, born in 1921) moved from Oklahoma.
He worked for his brother's Walton Mortgage Company, which was an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance, where he foreclosed on farms during the Great Depression. However, farming did not provide enough money to raise a family, and Thomas Walton went into farm mortgaging. He lived there with his parents on their farm until 1923. Samuel Moore Walton was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around US$240.6 billion as of January 2022. His family has remained the richest family in the U.S. For a period of time, Walton was the richest man in America. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world.
Was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in 19 respectively.
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