Ross Perot was a billionaire businessman who started a computer company called Electronic Data Systems in Dallas in 1962. In the 1992 US presidential race he ran as an independent and won almost 19 percent of the vote. He grew up in Texarkana, a town that straddles the state line between Arkansas and which neighboring state to the west?

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Texas. Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930 and raised in the same town. His close childhood friend Hayes McClerkin later became Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives and a prominent lawyer across the state line in Texarkana, Arkansas.