Howard Mason Gore (October 12, 1877June 20, 1947) was an American politician. He served as the 8th

Secretary of Agriculture The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other governments. The department includes several organi ...

from 1924 to 1925, during the administration of President

Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican lawyer ...

, and he served as 17th governor of West Virginia from 1925 to 1929.

Biography

Gore was born in

Harrison County, West Virginia Harrison County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,921. Its county seat is Clarksburg. Harrison County is part of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Indigenous ...

, to farmer Solomon Deminion Gore and his wife Marietta Payne (''née'' Rogers). Gore attended

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

in 1900. He married the former Roxalene (Roxie) Corder Bailey on September 30, 1906. She died on March 7, 1907, and he remained a widower in office."West Virginia's First Ladies", West Virginia Division of Culture and History, June 2007. Gore served as president of the West Virginia Livestock Association from 1912 until 1916. He was appointed to the West Virginia State Board of Education from 1920 until 1925. On November 22, 1924, Gore served briefly as the

following the death of his predecessor, Henry C. Wallace (1866–1924). On November 4, 1924, Gore was elected

Governor of West Virginia A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

in the 1924 election. He assumed the governorship at the end of the partial first term of President

on March 4, 1925. Gore then served as the West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture from 1931 until 1933. He died in

Clarksburg, West Virginia Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. The population of the city was 16,039 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg micro ...

, on June 20, 1947. He is interred there in the

Elkview Masonic Cemetery Elkview is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,222 at the 2010 census. It is named after the Elk River (West Virginia), Elk River, which flows into the ...

References

External links

Biography of Howard M. Gore

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West Virginia & Regional History Center The West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC), is the largest archival collection housing documents and manuscripts involving West Virginia and the surrounding central Appalachian region. Because of name changes over the years, it is some ...

Howard M. Gore papers
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