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Ernest Gallo

American businessman (1909–2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Ernest J. Gallo was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Gallo co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery in Modesto, California.

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The public source identifies “Ernest Gallo” as american businessman (1909–2007). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ernest, Gallo and American.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ernest, Gallo and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ernest Gallo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.