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George Horace Gallup Jr. (April 9, 1930 – November 21, 2011) was an American pollster, writer and executive at
The Gallup Organization Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. Starting in the 1980s, Gallup transitioned its b ...
, which had been founded by his father,
George Gallup George Horace Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion. Life and caree ...
. Gallup expanded the scope of the
Gallup Poll Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. Starting in the 1980s, Gallup transitioned its ...
to encompass a wider variety of topics, ranging from the outlook of American
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to religious beliefs. Much of Gallup's writings and research focused on religion and spirituality in the United States. His works included ''The Saints Among Us'', published in 1992, and ''The Next American Spirituality'', published in 2002. Born in
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, Gallup graduated from the
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in 1948 and received a
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in religion from
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in 1953. In 1954, Gallup joined his father's polling company, The Gallup Organization, where he worked until his retirement in 2004. He and his brother, Alec Gallup, became co-chairmen of the company upon their father's death. George Gallup was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2010. He died in
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, on November 21, 2011, at the age of 81. He was married to Kingsley Hubby, with whom he had three children. He was an Episcopalian, who once considered the ministry but instead served as an active
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