Background
Gove, Roger Madden was born on November 30, 1914 in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Son of Thurman Harrison and Leah Marie (Madden) Gove.
Gove, Roger Madden was born on November 30, 1914 in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Son of Thurman Harrison and Leah Marie (Madden) Gove.
Bachelor, Ohio State University, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, Ohio State University, 1941.
Intern White Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 1941-1942. Resident psychiatry Columbus State Hospital, 1942, 45-46. Commonwealth Fund fellow child psychiatry Children's Service Center Wyoming Valley, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1946-1947.
Director Upper Miami Valley Guidance Center, Piqua, Ohio, 1947-1950. Superintendent Columbus State School, 1950-1954, 58-66. Assistant commissioner Ohio Division Mental Hygiene, 1966-1970, commissioner, 1970-1974.
Chief Bureau Mental Retardation, 1954, 66–. Medical director mental retardation unit Athens Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, Athens, Ohio, 1977-1978. Practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, from 1978.
Superintendent Juvenile Diagnostic Center, Columbus, 1954-1958. Clinical assistant professor psychiatry and professor pediatrics Ohio State University College Medicine, since 1951. Chairman Task Force Mental Retardation Planning Ohio, 1963-1965.
Member committee long term care United Cerebral Palsy Association, since 1963.
Trustee Urbana (Ohio) College, 1964-1971. Served to captain Medical Corps United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Fellow American Association Mental Retardation (chairman examination board 1963-1967).
Member American Psychiatric Association, Ohio Psychiatric Association (president 1961), Epilepsy Association Ohio (vice president 1979).
Married Eleaner Jane Rooney, June 15, 1938. Children– Jon Duane, Janet Marie (Mistress David Dye), Joann Leah (Mistress Jerry Webb) and Judith Lynn (twins).