Ross Perot

=== Information ===
Ross Perot was the President of the United States of America from 1997-2001. He was the first third-party candidate to be elected since Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election, and the first third-party candidate to recieve electoral votes since the failed presidential run of George Wallace in 1968.
=== Election ===
Ross Perot attempted to run against Jimmy Carter in the 1992 presidential election as a independent and lost, but amassed a large following for his centrist policies, mixing liberal and conservative economic and social policies, which ending up creating the Reform Party in 1995. In the 1996 election, he ran against Republican nominee Bob Dole and Democratic nominee Jerry Brown. In 2000, he ran for reelection, but narrowly lost to Republican nominee Dick Cheney.
=== Term in Office ===
Ross Perot pulled out of many trade agreements between the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, and various European countries, as he saw the agreements as threats to the American industry. He pursued a tough stance on China and claimed that they were the main adversary of the United States. He approved U.S. intervention in the Angolan Civil War and the First Congo War.
=== Reform Party ===
The Reform Party of the United States was a prominent third party founded in 1995 by Ross Perot. The party's platform was a mixture of liberal and conservative policies and for a stronger, independent America. Some notable policies of the party included intervention in different civil wars, specifically ones against communists. The party also wanted a reimplementation of the 22nd amendment. The party was popular from the late 1990s to the mid 2010s. The party was able to get one presidential term, two lost elections with substantial electoral votes, seven different commonwealth governors, various lower state governors, as much as 1/3rd of the Senate and 1/4 of the House of Represenatives at the same time, and many seats in commonwealth, state, and local legislatures.
The party peaked at a total of 18,278,931 members in 2007. The Reform Party lost prominence in the mid-2010s after the calamitous 2016 Reform Pary National Covention, where candidates began fighting eachother after a heated exchange, and many riots and protests outside of the convention center. This collapse was also further aided by the 2016 Reform Party candidate storming out of the first debate midway through. Membership dropped to 13,568,987 in 2020, 4,347,132 in 2040, 2,039,531,199 in 2060, and 262,918,121 in 2076. The last Reform Party candidate to recieve electoral votes was in the 2020 election. The party slowly receded from the federal government and into commonwealth and state legislatures in the 2020s and 2030s. The party was removed from the presidential ballot in 2028. 
The last Reform Party commonwealth governor was for the Texas Commonwealth in the late 2030s, the last RFP state governor was elected in Kansas in the 2040s, the last congressman in 2040 from Kentucky, last state legislature representative being Pete Peterson of Vermont in 2056, and the last position held was the mayor of Barstow, California and Gavelston, Texas in 2076.
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