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Ross Perot for President; Campaign: 1992 United States presidential election: Candidate: Ross Perot President and CEO of Perot Systems (1988–1992) [1] VADM James B. Stockdale President of the Naval War College (1977–1979) Affiliation: Independent: Status: Lost election: November 3, 1992: Slogan: Ross for Boss I'm Ross, and you're the Boss ...
Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930, the son of Lula May (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, [3] a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. [4] [5] He had an older brother, Gabriel Perot Jr., who died as a toddler. [6] His patrilineal line traces back to a French-Canadian immigrant to the colony of Louisiana in the 1740s ...
Ross Perot was on the ballot in every state. Reform candidates Ross Perot – party founder and businessman from Texas; Richard Lamm – former Governor of Colorado; David L. Boren – former Senator from and former Governor of Oklahoma (declined) Lowell P. Weicker Jr. – former Senator from and former Governor of Connecticut (declined)
Ross Perot was on the ballot in every state; in six states (Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana, Oregon, Pennsylvania) Perot was placed on the ballot through the formation of a political party supporting his candidacy. His electoral performance in each of those states led to those parties being given ballot-qualified status.
Perot withdrew before he was certified to appear on the Virginia ballot, but his supporters were still able to submit enough signatures for him to be placed onto it. [ 5 ] With 44.97 percent of the popular vote, Virginia would prove to be Bush's sixth strongest state in the 1992 election after Mississippi , Utah (as a margin of victory), South ...
Perot bested Clinton or Bush for second place in 19 out of Colorado's 64 Counties and also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only fifteen county equivalents which Perot won nationwide. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush.
Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 23.96% of the popular vote. [2] Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. [ 3 ]
A FBI agent offered to sell an audio tape and documents from Perot's office to Oberwetter for $2,500. [12] Ross Perot, who had not announced his campaign yet, qualified to appear on the ballot in Texas on May 27, 1992. [13] He remained on the ballot despite dropping out. [14]