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George Gallup was born in the fall of the year 1901 on November 18, in the small town of Jefferson, Iowa the heartland of America. He grew up in an octagonal house build by his father, who was also named George. His father, George Henry Gallup, a farmer as well as a real estate dealer in agricultural land. From a young a George Jr. was already being to have a sense of democracy based on the sturdy, self-sufficient farmer. As a teenager, Gallup Jr. worked as the manager of dairy farm and used his salary to start a newspaper at his high school. He enrolled in the University of Iowa in 1918, played football and became the editor of the Daily Iowan as he began working for three U of I degrees, he received a bachelor's degree in 1923, a master's in 1925, and a doctorate in 1928. …show more content…

He then moved to Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa. He served as the head of the Department of Journalism until 1931, and within that year he moved to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, as the professor of journalism and advertising. By the next year he had moved to New York to join the advertising agency of Young and Rubicam, as the director of research, then later became the vice president from 1937 to 1947. From the years 1933 to 1937 he was also a professor at Columbia University where he taught journalism, but then shortly after he had to give up this position. He had formed his own polling company, the American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), in

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