  jim walton (sometimes james carr, born june 7, 1948) is the youngest son of sam walton, the founder of world's largest retailer wal-mart. on the 2014 forbes list of world billionaires, jim walton is ranked at #9 with a net worth of $34.7 billion. ==early life and family== jim walton is the third child of wal-mart co-founder sam walton (d. 1992) and helen walton (d. 2007) with siblings rob walton, alice walton, and john walton (d. 2005). after graduating from bentonville high school in 1965 where he was president of his junior class, played football at all-state level and also learned to fly a plane, walton received a bachelor's degree in business administration (ba) marketing from the university of arkansas in fayetteville, arkansas in 1971, where he was also a member of the lambda chi alph
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