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Gallup, George Horace

Born: 1901 AD
Died: 1984 AD, at 83 years of age.

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US pollster and statistician

 

chairman of journalism department at Drake University 1929-1931

 

founded American Institute of Public Opinion 1935 in Princeton, New Jersey, and originated Gallup Polls

 

vice-president of Young and Rubicam advertising agency 1937-1947

 

wrote "Public Opinion in a Democracy" 1939, "The Pulse of Democracy" 1940, "A Guide to Public Opinion Polls" 1944






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