{"id":1176660,"date":"2022-11-02T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1176660"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:42:01","slug":"east-texas-native-listed-by-forbes-as-one-of-americas-wealthiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1176660","title":{"rendered":"East Texas native listed by Forbes as one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/kw-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1176661\" \/>JERSEY CITY, N.J. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c East Texas native Kelcy Warren has been named as one of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK. Warren, a White Oak High School graduate, was listed as the 227th wealthiest American by Forbes with a real-time net worth of $4.8 billion as of Wednesday. He co-founded pipeline company Energy Transfer in 1996 with fellow billionaire Ray Davis, but stepped down as CEO in 2020. He remains executive chairman of the board of directors for the company. According to Forbes, despite protests in 2017 criticizing the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer finished building the $3.8 billion pipeline after an executive order by President Donald Trump.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Warren began his career in energy sweeping out warehouses for Sun Oil, where his father was a supply clerk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Forbes said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Energy Transfer operates over 120,000 miles of pipeline that move approximately 30% of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil and natural gas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In addition to his position among the wealthiest Americans, Warren is listed by Forbes as the 519th wealthiest person in the world and ranks a philanthropy score of two, meaning he has given away 1% to 4.99% of his wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERSEY CITY, N.J. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c East Texas native Kelcy Warren has been named as one of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK. Warren, a White Oak High School graduate, was listed as the 227th wealthiest American by Forbes with a real-time net worth of $4.8 billion as of Wednesday. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1176660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas native listed by Forbes as one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1176664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/kw-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas native listed by Forbes as one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 07:19:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/kw-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas native listed by Forbes as one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176662,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176660\/revisions\/1176662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}