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Perot, Ross, 1930-2019

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Personal name headingPerot, Ross, 1930-2019
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Variant(s)Perot, H. Ross (Henry Ross), 1930-2019
Perot, Henry Ross, 1930-2019
Perot, Henry Ray, 1930-2019
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1930-06-27
Death date2019-07-09
Place of birthTexarkana (Tex.)
Place of deathDallas (Tex.)
Field of activityComputer service industry
AffiliationReform Party (U.S.)
United We Stand America (Organization)
Perot Systems Corporation
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Profession or occupationPresidential candidates
Businesspeople
Found inHis H. Ross Perot at the National Press Club [SR] p1984: label (H. Ross Perot) narration (Ross Perot; Texas businessman, b. 1930)
Ross Perot, 1994: CIP t.p. (Ross Perot) galley (named Henry Ray Perot at birth, his name was changed to Henry Ross Perot at age 5; b. 6/27/30)
New York times WWW site, viewed July 9, 2019 (Ross Perot; b. Henry Ray Perot, June 27, 1930, Texarkana, Tex.; changed his name to Henry Ross Perot in honor of a brother, Gabriel Ross Perot Jr., who had died, just a toddler, in 1927; called himself Ross; the media years later added the initial "H" at the beginning of his name, but he never liked it; d. Tuesday [July 9, 2019], Dallas, aged 89; wiry Texas gadfly who made a fortune in computer services, amazed the nation with bizarre paramilitary missions to Vietnam and Iran, and ran for president in 1992 and 1996 with populist talk of restoring Norman Rockwell's America)
LC database, July 9, 2019 (heading: Perot, H. Ross, 1930- ; usage: Ross Perot [predominant form overall, only form used in books by him], H. Ross Perot)
Associated languageeng