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The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab is studying the light meson spectrum with an emphasis on the search for hybrid mesons. Besides the focus on hybrid meson candidates with exotic quantum numbers, the identification of hybrid mesons with conventional quantum numbers will be essential to confirm the pattern of hybrid multiplets predicted by Lattice QCD calculations and to determine their nature. In this talk, we will focus on the vector meson sector, particularly on the ones decaying into two-pseudoscalar meson final states. Vector mesons contribute to a large fraction of the total photoproduction cross section of the linearly-polarized photon beam at GlueX. The vector meson ground states