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Henry Ross Perot Sr. (/ p ə ˈ r oʊ / ⓘ pə-ROH; June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist.He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems.
The state was won in 1992 by Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton with 44.07 percent of the popular vote, over incumbent President George Herbert Walker Bush with 33.92 percent of the popular vote — the smallest vote share for a Republican since 1860 when the party was not seriously contesting slave states outside of the Missouri Rhineland. [1]
Perot largely financed his own campaign and relied on marketing and wide grass roots support. In certain polls, he led the three-way race with Republican nominee George H. W. Bush, the incumbent president, and Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, the Democratic nominee. He dropped out in July 1992 amid controversy, but re-entered in October ...
H. Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire who ran for president twice, has died at age 89, his family said.
Texas-born Perot, a Naval Academy graduate, started his career as an IBM (NYSE: IBM) salesman, before borrowing $1,000 from his wife to start EDS in 1962. H. Ross Perot, Computer Industry Pioneer ...
You may have heard that Ross Perot is making news again in this election.Again, for those of you who are 20 or younger, refers to when Perot ran for president in 1992 and 1996. Whether people ...
Just over 100,000 votes were cast for all other candidates, half of which were write-in votes for H. Ross Perot. [18] Former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen, who had run for president nine times since 1944, also mounted his final campaign. President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle easily won renomination by the Republican Party.
Missouri was won by incumbent President Bill Clinton (D-AR) over Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), with Clinton winning 47.54% to Dole's 41.24% for a winning margin of 6.3%. Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Reform-TX) finished in third, with 10.06% of the popular vote. [1]