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Gallup papers at UI reveal origins of modern polling
University of Iowa collects more than 200 boxes detailing George Gallup early work in polling from 1930s campaigns. The archives cover informal voter surveys that helped elect Ola Babcock Miller in 1932 and trace Gallup's rise from local ad man to founder of the Gallup Organization.
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Gallup
Iowa City
George Gallup
Ola Babcock Miller
Iowa
University of Iowa
Hollywood
Alison Gallup
Signer
Tennessee
The
Daily Iowan
New York City
American Institute of Public Opinion
Gallup Organization
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alfred Landon
Literary Digest
Thomas Dewey
Presi