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Henry Ross Perot Jr. (born November 7, 1958 [1]) is an American real estate developer and businessman best known for his development of Alliance, Texas, an inland port near Fort Worth, and for making the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, at age 23. Perot chairs multiple companies, including The Perot Group [2] and Hillwood. [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 ...
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 ...
Fullinwider's daughter, Sarah, is married to Ross Perot Jr. [2] Career. Fullinwider began his career in oil with Standard Oil of Ohio, ...
H. Ross Perot rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty to become a self-made billionaire who twice ran for president with a mixture of folksy sayings and simple solutions to America's problems.
H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson confirmed.
Ross Perot (1930–2019), United States business leader and presidential candidate; H. Ross Perot, Jr. (born 1958), United States businessman and son of Ross Perot; Alfred Pérot (1863–1925), French physicist; William Bennett Perot (1791–1871), early postmaster of Bermuda; see Perot Island, Bermuda; Perot de Garbalei (fl. 1300), author of ...