Background
Hambidge, Gove was born on November 17, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Jay and Cordella Selina (deLorme) Hambidge.
Hambidge, Gove was born on November 17, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Jay and Cordella Selina (deLorme) Hambidge.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1913.
Began as writer, 1913. Engaged as assistant district supervisor Charity Organisation Society of New York, 1914-1915. Special agent Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, 1915-1916.
Special investigator New York City Fire Department, 1916-1918.
Assistant editor Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919. Managing editor World Tomorrow, 1919-1922.
Assistant editor Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1922-1927. Free-lance writer, 1925-1935.
Senior information specialist, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, unites states department of Agriculture, 1935.
Principal research writer and editor Yearbook of Agriculture, Office of Information, unites states department of Agriculture, 1936-1942. Coordinator. Agricultural Research Administration, 1942-1945. Executive secretary United Nations Interim Commision on Food and Agriculture, 1945.
Director of Information, Food and Agriculture Organisation of United Nations, 1945-1948, editorial adviser 1948-1951, North American Regional representative, 1951-1956.
Consultant, 1956; consultant United States government and United Nations agencies, 1956-1970. Executive secretary Society for International Development, 1957-1958.
United States delegate United Nations conference on Food and Agriculture, 1943.
Served as private, later sergeant and Second lieutenant, Quartermaster Corps., United States Army, 1917-1918. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Academy Political and Social Science.
Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Dorothy Cooke, August 16, 1917. Children: Gove, Deborah (Mistress Arthur Witt Brewer).