High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Hayes Gore (1886—1972) was a Florida politician and newspaper publisher who also served as the 11th civilian Governor of Puerto Rico from July 1933 to January 1934. He was born in Knottsville, Kentucky and became a newspaper writer, 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 extremely wealthy, establishing a publishing house in Terre Haute and an insurance agency in Chicago to handle the business. While residing in Terre Haute, Gore met Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for Vice President of the U.S. That fortuitous meeting ultimately resulted in Gore's appointment as Governor of Puerto Rico. Prior to his stint in...

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