George Horace Gallup Jr. (April 9, 1930 – November 21, 2011) was an American pollster, writer and executive at

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, which had been founded by his father,

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. Gallup expanded the scope of the

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to encompass a wider variety of topics, ranging from the outlook of American

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to religious beliefs. He also was an author, focusing on religion and

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in the United States. His works included ''The Saints Among Us'', published in 1992, and ''The Next American Spirituality'', published in 2002.

Biography

Gallup was born in

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, and graduated from the

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in 1948. He received a

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in religion from

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in 1953, and joined his father's polling company,

a year later. He became co-chairmen of the company (with his brother Alex) upon their father's death in 1984, and worked there until his retirement in 2004. Gallop was married to Kingsley Hubby, with whom he had three children. He was an

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, who once considered the ministry but instead served as an active

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. He was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2010, and died in

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, on November 21, 2011, at the age of 81.

References

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