H. Ross Perot Political Collection 1992-2003

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H. Ross Perot Political Collection 1992-2003

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Henry Ross Perot, born on June 27, 1930, is an American businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. This collection contains flyers, news clippings, correspondence, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, VHS tapes, and scrapbooks documenting Ross Perot’s political campaigns and major political events during that time.

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Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6641991

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Perot, Ross, 1930-2019

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Ross Perot was born June 27, 1930 in Texarkana, TX. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1949 and left the Navy in 1957. After a successful position with IBM, Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, TX in 1962. EDS went public in 1968, and General Motors bought a controlling interest in EDS for $2.4 billion in 1984. The same year, Perot's Perot Foundation bought a very early copy of Magna Carta and lent it to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. In 2007, the foundat...