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Texas billionaire, businessman and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot passed away at the age of 89 after a six-month-long battle with leukemia.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Perot was diagnosed with leukemia in February. A massive secondary infection the next month nearly killed him, according to the family.