Paul Mellon


Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist and an ownerbreeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an Exemplar of Racing by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was coheir to one of Americas greatest business fortunes, the Mellon Bank fortune, created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his fathers brother Richard B. Mellon. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa MellonBruce, and his cousins Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon, were all among the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes of between 400 and 700 million dollars each .

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