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Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an independent campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election and a third-party campaign in the 1996 U.S. presidential election as the nominee of the Reform Party, which was formed by grassroots supporters of Perot's 1992…
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business · American businessman and politician (1930–2019) · naval officer · politician · entrepreneur · television presenter · also Ross Perot, Henry Ross Perot, H. Ross Perot, Henry Ray Perot, Perot
Born 27 June 1930 · Died 9 July 2019 · Q313697
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2026· 2 entries
“We cut the capital gains tax rate from a maximum rate of 35% to a maximum rate that got as low as 20% during the 1980s. Who got the benefit? The rich did, of course, because that's who owns most of the capital assets.”
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2025· 2 entries
Dallas Morning News: Ross Perot Jr. named board chair of U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Benzinga.com: Joe Rogan Says Ross Perot Was Right: 'American Manufacturing Collapsed' Because 'Greedy' Executives Sent Jobs Overseas
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2024· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: Bill Clinton’s Debt to Ross Perot
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RealClearPolitics: How Ross Perot Changed Both Major Parties
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2020· 1 entry
Yahoo: Ross Perot's Forgotten Mission During the Vietnam War
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2019· 4 entries
AP News rated the claim “Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot left $100 million to the Trump 2020 campaign when he died.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Ross Perot bequeathed $100 million to the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump.” False.
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Died 2019-07-09.
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Less than two weeks after his 89th birthday
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2017· 1 entry
Reported net worth: $4.1B (as of 2017).
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2016· 1 entry
FiveThirtyEight described the theory that Perot was a spoiler as "unlikely"
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2012· 1 entry
Perot endorsed Romney for president again
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2011· 1 entry
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science announced it was naming a new species of the dinosaur genus Pachyrhinosaurus after the Perot family
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2010· 2 entries
Perot was given the William J
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Perot was presented with the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Command and General Staff College Foundation, Inc
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2009· 4 entries
The United States Military Academy at West Point awarded him with the distinguished Sylvanus Thayer Award
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The Texarkana Independent School District named him (1947 graduate of Texas High School) as a 2009 Distinguished Alumnus
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Ross Perot was made an honorary Green Beret at the John F
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Dell acquired Perot Systems for $3
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2007· 1 entry
The foundation sold it to David Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group for $21
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2005· 1 entry
Perot was asked to testify before the Texas Legislature in support of proposals to extend access to technology to students, including making laptops available to them
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1996· 3 entries
Campaign: 1996 presidential election.
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Establishing the Reform Party as a vehicle for his campaign
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Lower than in the 1992 race, but still an unusually successful third-party showing by U
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1995· 1 entry
Founded the Reform Party, which focused on fiscal conservatism and electoral reform, and won their presidential nomination for the 1996 United States presidential election
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1993· 2 entries
Perot debated with then-Vice President Al Gore on the issue on Larry King Live with an audience of 16 million viewers
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“A disturbing trend has emerged from the decade of greed, the era of trickle-down economics and the period of capital gains tax manipulation. We are headed for a two-class society.”
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1992· 9 entries
Was featured on the cover of Time with the title "Waiting for Perot", an allusion to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot
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Perot appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and announced his intention to run as an independent if his supporters could get his name on the ballot in all 50 states
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Perot announced his intention to run for president and advocated a balanced budget, an end to the outsourcing of jobs, and the enactment of electronic direct democracy
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“We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It”
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“highest foreign policy priority is to get our house in order and make America work again”
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“the decade of greed, the era of trickle-down economics”
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Campaign: 1992 presidential election.
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Perot was entitled to receive federal election funding for 1996
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To mark the launch of his presidential campaign, complete with charts
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1990· 2 entries
Retired financial planner Jack Gargan, employing a famous quotation from the 1976 movie Network, funded a series of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" newspaper advertisements denouncing Congress for
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Perot reached an agreement with Vietnam's Foreign Ministry to become its business agent if diplomatic relations were normalized
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1988).
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Founded Perot Systems in Plano, Texas
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And was an angel investor for NeXT, a computer company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Raoul Wallenberg Award (1987).
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1986· 2 entries
Perot became the third American to receive the Winston Churchill Award for his efforts on behalf of American POWs in Vietnam in the 1960s and for organizing the rescue of two EDS employees from a prison in Iran
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This was turned into a two-part television mini-series (alternatively titled "Teheran") with the actor Burt Lancaster playing the role of Colonel Simons and Richard Crenna as Perot
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1985· 2 entries
Was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
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Perot sold EDS to General Motors with the idea that he and EDS would have a leadership role within the company
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1984· 3 entries
General Motors bought a controlling interest in the company for $2
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Perot's Perot Foundation bought a very early copy of Magna Carta, one of only a few to leave the United Kingdom
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General Motors bought a controlling interest in EDS for $2
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1980· 1 entry
Received the Oak Cliff Lions Clubs' "Humanitarian Award"
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1973· 1 entry
The Perot Affair with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller questioned the awarding of contracts by the state to EDS
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Horatio Alger Award (1972).
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1970· 3 entries
Its exceptionally high price-to-earnings ratio, reaching 118 times earnings at its initial public offering in 1968, made it a prime target for a bear raid
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Through David Rockefeller and Chase Manhattan, with some accusing Perot's pact with the Rockefellers as questionable
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Was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1969· 1 entry
Made at the request of the White House, in which he met with senior North Vietnamese officials, Perot became heavily involved in the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
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1968· 1 entry
And the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days
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1962· 2 entries
To found Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, Texas, and courted large corporations for his data processing services
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Founded Electronic Data Systems, a data processing service company
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1957· 1 entry
Perot became a salesman for IBM
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1956· 1 entry
Perot married Margot Birmingham, whom he met on a blind date as a midshipman docked in Baltimore
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1942· 1 entry
After 13 months in the program, and was a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
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1930· 2 entries
The son of Lula May (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts
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Born 1930-06-27.
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1924· 1 entry
Strom Thurmond in 1948, and George Wallace in 1968
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