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Jon Huntsman Jr Net Worth

A chemicals fortune built by his father, three ambassadorships, and one short presidential run.

By Net Worth Watch Editorial · Reviewed by Net Worth Watch Research

Last updated Nov 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Portrait photograph of Jon Huntsman Jr
Photo: US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Estimated net worth

$950 Million

USD · As of November 3, 2026

Source of wealth
Huntsman Corporation, Huntsman Family Holdings, Trusts and family assets
Nationality
United States
Estimate by
CelebrityNetWorth

What is Jon Huntsman Jr’s net worth?

CelebrityNetWorth lists Jon Huntsman Jr.’s net worth at $950 million in a profile dated 3 November 2026, which places him among the wealthiest people in Utah.

The sum is family wealth rather than a personal build. His own income came from government salaries, family holding companies and corporate board seats, not from a company he founded.

Sources of wealth

The fortune traces to Huntsman Corporation, the chemicals group his father founded in 1982 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. It produces polyurethanes, pigments, textiles and other specialty chemicals.

Jon Jr. was an executive of the company from 1993 to 2001 and chief executive of Huntsman Family Holdings, the private entity that held the family’s stock in it.

How the fortune was built

He served a mission for his church in Taiwan, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 and worked in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. At 32 he became ambassador to Singapore, one of the youngest Americans to hold such a post.

He was governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011, a brief candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, and ambassador to Russia from 2017 to 2019.

How we estimate it

We publish the CelebrityNetWorth figure dated 3 November 2026 and list what it is built on. The family’s Huntsman Corporation stake sits inside private holding companies, so his personal share is an estimate rather than a figure disclosed in a single public filing.

His father died in 2018 and the estate has been distributed in stages, which adds further uncertainty to any figure attached to one heir.

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