In what year did the founder of Getty Oil get coined the "Fortune" magazine's richest living American?
Getty Oil: Getty Oil is an American oil marketing company with its origins as part of the large integrated oil company founded by the father of J. Paul Getty. J. Paul Getty:  He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 "Fortune" magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $ billion in 2016).
1957