Bob Dole's net worth: Bob Dole is an American politician who has a net worth of $ 40 million. That is a combined net worth with his wife since 1975, Elizabeth Dole. In her 2007 Senate financial statement, Elizabeth estimated that she and Bob were worth a minimum of $ 14 million and a maximum of $ 49 million. In 1996, during Bob's presidential campaign, the Doles estimated his net worth to be $ 2.3 to $ 7.7 million. That is the same as around $ 4 – $ 13 million in today's dollars. At the time, Bob earned a salary of $ 148,000 as a senator, $ 10,000 a year in speaking fees, and $ 18,660 in military retirement benefits. Elizabeth, on the other hand, earned more than $ 100,000 a year in speaking fees, earning around $ 900,000 in speaking fees alone in a three-year period between 1991 and 1994. She donated much of her earnings to the Red Cross.
Born in Russell, Kansas, Bob Dole, also known as Robert Joseph Dole, graduated from the University of Kansas, where he majored in Law. He then obtained his law degree from the University of Arizona. He fought in Italy during World War II, where he was seriously wounded by German machine gun fire. The hospital where he recovered was later renamed in his honor. He was elected to the Kansas City House of Representatives in 1950, and then to the United States House of Representatives in 1960. He became the Senate Minority Leader in 1987, and then served as the Senate Majority Leader. from 1995-1996. He was also a United States Senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996. He was Gerald Ford's vice-presidential election during Ford's unsuccessful run for president in 1976. He attempted to obtain the Republican nomination for President unsuccessfully in 1980 and 1988. He eventually won the nomination in 1996, but lost the presidential race to Bill Clinton.