The Hunt family is one of the wealthiest families in America. Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt and family pose prior to the NFL Honors on February 1, 2020. Rich Graessle/PPI/Icon Sportswire/Getty ImagesLong before Lamar and Clark Hunt were considered football royalty, oil tycoon Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was known as one of the wealthiest men in America. The New York Times reported that H. L. Hunt founded the Hunt Oil Company in 1936 and used his fortune from the oil business to invest in other industries such as publishing, cosmetics, and pecan farming. In 2024, Forbes estimated that the Hunt family is worth an estimated $24.8 billion, and continues to own oil and gas companies around the world in addition to their sports empire.

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