One of the nation’s leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut, who was a frequent presence on television and radio, especially during election seasons, died Tuesday at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 73.
He had been battling leukemia since late 2009, said his wife, Diane Colasanto.
Kohut, who was protégé of George Gallup and worked for his organization, was director of the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press that became part of the Pew organization in the mid-1990s.
He was president of the Pew Research Center from 2004 until he stepped down in 2012.