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==Business==
 
==Business==
Originally from a poor, [[Great Depression|Depression-era]] family, Perot became a self-made billionaire as head of the computer company Electronic Data Systems,<ref>Koenig, David (July 9, 2019). [https://www.apnews.com/6f2a4a73431b43e2bd4534d2dc561125 H. Ross Perot rose from poverty to self-made billionaire]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved July 9, 2019.</ref> which held very large contracts with the federal government for processing Medicare and Medicaid claims. He sold it to General Motors for a vast sum and a seat on the GM board. GM could not handle such an unconventional outsider, and they bought him out for another large sum. By 1992 his portfolio of holdings added up into the billions, making him one of the two richest political figures of the era.<ref>The other was [[Michael Bloomberg]], currently mayor of New York City. [[Henry A. Wallace]] reached the billionaire status after he left politics.</ref>
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Originally from a poor, [[Great Depression|Depression-era]] family, Perot became a self-made billionaire as head of the computer company Electronic Data Systems,<ref>Koenig, David (July 9, 2019). [https://www.apnews.com/6f2a4a73431b43e2bd4534d2dc561125 H. Ross Perot rose from poverty to self-made billionaire]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved July 9, 2019.</ref> which held very large contracts with the federal government for processing Medicare and Medicaid claims. He sold it to General Motors for a vast sum and a seat on the GM board. GM could not handle such an unconventional outsider, and they bought him out for another large sum. He would use the sum to start a competing firm, Perot Systems (later sold to Hewlett Packard).
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By 1992 his portfolio of holdings added up into the billions, making him one of the two richest political figures of the era.<ref>The other was [[Michael Bloomberg]], currently mayor of New York City. [[Henry A. Wallace]] reached the billionaire status after he left politics.</ref>
    
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==Reformer==
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