H. Ross Perot, a computer-services pioneer whose two outsider presidential campaigns tapped into some of the antiestablishment sentiments that later propelled Donald Trump to the White House, died Tuesday at his home in Dallas. He was 89 years old and had leukemia.
Mr. Perot, who founded Electronic Data Systems Corp. and sold it to General Motors Co. in 1984 for $2.5 billion, was the most successful independent presidential candidate of his time.
His first campaign, focused on the national debt, may have determined the outcome of the 1992 election, in which Democrat Bill Clinton defeated incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush. Four years later, he played up trade deficits with Mexico, foreshadowing a theme of the 2016 election.
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