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'Tucker Carlson Tonight' looks back at Ross Perot's contribution to politics. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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 ...
Ross Perot crusaded against the deficit and was an early opponent of NAFTA, says 'Fox News Sunday' anchor Chris Wallace. Chris Wallace reflects on Ross Perot's political career [Video] Skip to ...
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]
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.
H. Ross Perot, Jr. Why are you seeking this office? Senate District 12 is the people’s seat, and serving every citizen remains the greatest honor of my professional life.
A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot's candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing "Clinton's margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage points." [ 118 ] In 2016, FiveThirtyEight described the speculation that Perot was a spoiler as "unlikely".
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.