Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Howard Mason Gore
GORE, HOWARD MASON (1877–1947), inducted between 1920–1936
With an agriculture degree from the University of West Virginia, and experience breeding beef cattle and hogs on the family farm in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Howard Gore worked for the US Department of Agriculture in both the Bureau of Animal Industry and the Packers and Stockyards Administration. In 1923, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and then briefly designated Secretary of Agriculture by President Coolidge, upon the death of Henry C. Wallace. He served for just four months, having been elected Governor of West Virginia. Another Saddle & Sirloin inductee, William Marion Jardine, succeeded him. Following his term as governor, Gore served as state commissioner of agriculture and was director of several West Virginia banks.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 99