Perry, Paul K.

Paul Keely Perry was born on February 22, 1910, in Camden, New Jersey, and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New York . He graduated from Tufts University in 1933.

Perry joined the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935 not long after it was founded by George Gallup . The next year it made history not only by predicting correctly that Franklin Roosevelt would defeat Alf Landon but also by estimating the magnitude of the error the Literary Digest would make in its final release before the 1936 election.

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