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* Excluding political appointments. And Gerald Ford’s 25 years in federal politics skews the average; the median is seven.

* These are all actual winnings reported to me by Brigham Young students. There’s even a myth that someone once brought back a used car in Bigger or Better. And in 2005, a little farther north, a young Canadian man named Kyle MacDonald famously played an Internet-based game of Bigger or Better where he started with a red paperclip and eventually traded up to a house after 12 months and 14 trades.

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* Dates approximate, especially for pre-Revolutionary War officeholders.

* Some studies have indicated that as many as 50 ...

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