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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 ...
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 ]
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; 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 ...
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)
North Carolina was the second-closest state in this election behind neighboring Georgia. [2] This was also the first time since 1956 when North Carolina did not support the winning candidate. It has since gone on to back losing Republicans Bob Dole in 1996 , Mitt Romney in 2012 , and Donald Trump in 2020 .
Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both incumbent President Bush and Perot. [3] Perot's 30.44% would prove Maine as his strongest state in the 1992 election. [4] Ross Perot came within 4.55% of winning an electoral vote in Maine's second congressional district, the closest he came to winning an electoral vote.