Robert Hayes Gore

Robert Hayes Gore (May 24, 1886 – December 26, 1972) was an American politician and incredibly successful newspaper publisher who was appointed as the governor of Puerto Rico, serving from July 1933 to January 1934. Early life He was born in Knottsville, Kentucky and attended local schools. He became a newspaper writer after being fascinated by papers as a boy. Marriage and family Gore married and he and his wife had nine children. Newspaper career He went on to become an editor-publisher in the Scripps chain, soon heading newspapers in Evansville, Indiana, and Terre Haute, Indiana. While the editor-publisher of the Terre Haute Post, Gore conceived the idea of "giving away" $1,000 travel life insurance policies with new newspaper subscriptions. After securing an underwriter, Gore took his program nationwide. Within a year, he was worth just over a hundred million dollars (2.6 billion in 2015), later establishing another publishing house in Terre Haute and an insurance agency in Chicago to handle the business.