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Born in Montezuma, Indiana as the youngest of four boys (Harold, Floyd, Fayette, & GW, in descending order of age).
Father was John Edwards Allport (b. 1863), a "country doctor" who came to this career after working in business; mother was Nellie Edith (Wise) Allport (b. 1862) who had been a school teacher.
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Graduated 2nd in a class of 100 from Glenville High School in Ohio.
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Attended Harvard as an undergraduate with interests in psychology and social ethics. Instead he choose a career in philosophy and economics instead.
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Taught Economics & Philosophy in Constantinople (Istanbul) at Robert College.
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Doctoral studies at Harvard in Psychology. Ph.D. awarded for a doctoral dissertation: "An Experimental Study of the Traits of Personality: With Special Reference to the Problem of Social Diagnosis" (Mentor: Herbert S. Langfeld with William McDougall and James Ford as readers)
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Married Ada Lufkin Gould who was trained as a clinical psychologist. Their son, Robert, was born June 29, 1927 and later became a pediatrician (Nicholson, 2003).
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Gordon Allport is elected the president of the American Psychology Association.
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Publication of The Nature of Prejudice.
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Publication of Letters from Jenny. For many years Allport had used a series of 300 letters from a woman (from age 58 to 70, the year of her death) as the focus of student discussion and analysis in a seminar on personality.
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Died in Cambridge, MA of lung cancer.
