Dallas | Ross Perot, the colourful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president, has died. He was 89. The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said.
Perot, whose 19 per cent of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early on Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by his family, said the spokesman, James Fuller.
