Background
Gauvreau, Emile Henry was born on February 4, 1891 in Centerville, Connecticut, United States. Son of Alphonse and Malvina (Perron) Gauvreau.
Gauvreau, Emile Henry was born on February 4, 1891 in Centerville, Connecticut, United States. Son of Alphonse and Malvina (Perron) Gauvreau.
Educated Provencher Academy, Montreal, Canada, and public schools and high school, New Haven, Connecticut.
Began as newspaper reporter, 1909, later cartoonist. Became night editor New Haven Journal-Courier, 1915, and legislative reporter, later managing editor, Hartford Courant, 1924. Editor and publisher, New York Evening Graphic, 1924-1929.
Managing editor New York Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, 1929-1935.
Also daily columnist as news commentator. Launched national editorial campaign which established Mark Twain’s home as literature shrine in Hartford, Connecticut.
Director in chief, pooling of patents investigation conducted by Committee of Patents, House of Representatives. Special observer with Congl Mission to Soviet Russia on recognition study.
Assigned as special agent of Congress to study Good Neighbor policy in Cuba.
Editor Rotogravure magazine of Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer and editor of Click, picture monthly, 1937-1940.
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Married Sarah Welles Joyner, August, 1915 (divorced 1936). Married second, Winifred C. Rollins, December 5, 1936. Children: Alphonse Perron, Henry Welles.