{{Short description|American businessman (1910–1993)}} {{Infobox person | name = Julio Gallo | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|03|21}} | birth_place = Oakland, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|05|2|1910|03|21}} | death_place = Tracy, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = Founder of E & J Gallo Winery | notable_works = }} '''Julio Gallo''' (March 21, 1910 – May 2, 1993) was one of two of the founders of the E & J Gallo Winery.<ref name=tastes/>
==Biography== He was born on March 21, 1910, in Oakland, California to Joseph Gallo Sr. He had two brothers: his partner in the wine business, Ernest Gallo; and his youngest brother, Joseph Edward Gallo. Joseph Gallo Sr. died in a murder-suicide when he shot his wife and then took his own life.<ref name=tastes/> Julio grew up near Modesto, California<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=May 3, 1993 |title=Julio Gallo, 82, Wine Industrialist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/03/obituaries/julio-gallo-82-wine-industrialist-dies.html |access-date=November 27, 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> and graduated in 1929 from Modesto High School. He married Aileen (1913–1999) and they had: Robert J. Gallo, and Susan Gallo Coleman.<ref name=tastes/>
He died on May 2, 1993, when the vehicle he was driving veered off a dirt road on his ranch near Tracy, California. The cause of death was a cervical spine fracture and partial dislocation caused by the blunt-force trauma of the crash.<ref name=tastes>{{cite news |author=Eric Pace |author-link=Eric Pace |title=Julio Gallo, 83, Wine Industrialist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/obituaries/julio-gallo-83-wine-industrialist-dies.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 4, 1993 |access-date=2010-07-28 }}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * 1989 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}</ref> * 2006 – Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor, Conrad N. Hilton College, Hilton University of Houston<ref>{{cite web|title= Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor Inductees|publisher=Hilton College|url= https://www.uh.edu/hilton-college/About/Hospitality-Industry-Hall-of-Honor/Inductees/Ernest-Julio-Gallo%20/}}</ref>
==Further reading== * [http://www.gallosonoma.com/ Gallo Family Vineyards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130052057/http://www.gallosonoma.com/ |date=2009-01-30 }} * Henderson, Bruce, with Ernest and Julio Gallo. ''Ernest & Julio: Our Story''. Times Books, 1994{{ISBN?}}
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