5 sentences with “wealthiest”

Despite becoming one of the wealthiest men in New York City, Cooper lived simply.

For starters, this girl belonged to the Eickhoff family, one of the wealthiest in town.

The wealthiest and most powerful citizens were known as "aristocrats", the "best people".

The wealthiest class consisted of the equites, so called because they could afford to buy horses and thus form the Roman cavalry; the elite class would go on to be a leading power bloc in Roman history well into the Imperial period.

South Carolina's 1778 constitution also sought to protect the interests of the wealthy. Governors and lieutenant governors of the state were required to have "a settled plantation or free property in their own right of at least ten thousand pounds sterling in value, free from debt". This provision limited the state's high offices to its wealthiest inhabitants. Similarly, South Carolina state senators were required to own estates valued at £2,000.