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Margot Birmingham Perot (mother) 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.
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]
Perot eventually sold his company to General Motors in 1984 for $2.55 billion, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. [10] By 1992, his fortune was judged to be $3 billion (~$5.85 billion in 2023). [7] Perot was a hawk on the Vietnam War, an advocate for U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war and a supporter of their families. During the war, he ...
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science (shortened to Perot Museum) is a natural history and science museum in Dallas, Texas, in Victory Park. The museum was named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot. [3] The current chief executive officer of the museum is Dr. Linda Abraham-Silver. [4]
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a successful IBM salesman who first-hand observed how inefficiently IBM's customers typically were using their expensive systems. Somewhat to IBM's chagrin, since the company wanted to sell as many computers as possible, Perot ...
The new concert center was named in his honor in 1986 at the request of Ross Perot, who made a $10 million contribution to the building fund for the naming rights. It is the permanent home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Chorus , as well as the primary performing venue of the Dallas Wind Symphony and several other ...
Manuel Margot Gomez (born September 28, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball center fielder in the Milwaukee Brewers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres , Tampa Bay Rays , and Minnesota Twins .
H. Ross Perot and eight associates founded Perot Systems in June 1988 after having sold EDS to General Motors. Before its acquisition by Dell Inc. in September 2009, Perot Systems was a Fortune 1000 corporation with more than 23,000 associates and annual revenue (2008) of $2.8 billion. The company maintained offices in more than 25 countries ...