Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930. After working for IBM, he founded (1962) Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a computer services company. During the Iranian hostage crisis (1979), he funded a successful operation to rescue two of his employees from an Iranian prison. He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, diversified into real estate, gas, and oil, and later started a new computer services company.He ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president as an independent in 1992 and fought U.S. ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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