Jack R. Gage

Jack Robert Gage (* January 13, 1899 in McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, † March 14, 1970 in Cheyenne, Wyoming ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party), who from 1961 to 1963 as acting governor of the state Wyoming officiated.

Career

Gage graduated in 1918 at the Wyoming High School in Worland and then immediately enlisted in the Army Coast Artillery Corps. A year later he was released and then went to the University of Wyoming, which he left in 1924 with a degree in agricultural engineering. Then he taught at a school and ran a bookstore, before he was elected in 1934 for a four year term as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. After he was defeated in his re-election attempt, he was postmaster in Sheridan. In 1958 he was elected Secretary of State.

As governor was John J. Hickey resigned from his post to take over the seat of the late Edwin Keith Thomson after his election in the U.S. Senate, led Gage whose official duties continued as acting governor. During his tenure, he sought retroactive payments and land by the federal government and made ​​an unsuccessful startup, the federal petroleum licenses for oil production in the state to raise almost three times. It was founded in 1962 in the election for governor defeated and then went back to the private sector, where he wrote several books, including Ten Sleep and No Rest, Pack of Lies and Afoot and Horseback.