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- ↑ Forbes 2009
- 1 2 Brian Solomon, The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree, Forbes , 9/22/2011
- ↑ David Frey, Who’s the Richest in the West? For billionaire bucks, Wyoming wins., New West, 10-05-09
- 1 2 "Marianne Liebmann". Forbes. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
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