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The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a centrist political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot. Perot believed Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues.
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]
In 1992, Ross Perot ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for President of the United States.Perot was a Texas industrialist who had never served as a public official, but he had experience as the head of several successful corporations and had been involved in public affairs for the previous three decades.
United We Stand America was the name selected by Texas businessman H. Ross Perot for his citizen action organization after his 1992 independent political campaign for President of the United States. Perot's 19% showing in the 1992 election was sufficient to entitle him to federal matching funds for the 1996 campaign. [1]
H. Ross Perot, Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died.
Ross Perot was an early proponent of radical centrism. Political independent Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998. [58] Some commentators identify Ross Perot's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign as the first radical centrist national campaign. [34] [175] However, many radical centrist authors were not enthusiastic about Perot.
The "giant sucking sound" was a phrase used by United States presidential candidate Ross Perot, to describe what he believed would be the negative effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he opposed.
In the 1992 presidential election, Ross Perot, a successful American businessman, ran as a third-party candidate. Despite significant campaign stumbles and the uphill struggles involved in mounting a third-party candidacy, Perot received 18.9% of the popular vote (the largest percentage of any third-party candidate in modern history), largely ...