President Herbert Hoover

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President Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
During his first year in office the Wall Street crash of 1929 occurred. He was blamed for the resulting collapse of the economy, and his unpopular policies brought an end to a brilliant career in public office. After the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, however, Hoover remained a leading critic of the New Deal and a spokesman for the Republican party.

Early Life

Born on Aug. 10, 1874, the son of a blacksmith in the Iowa village of
West Branch, Hoover was orphaned at the age of eight and sent to live with an uncle in Oregon. The uncle became wealthy, enabling Hoover to study mining engineering at Stanford University; he graduated in 1895. The influences of his engineering training and his Quaker upbringing were to shape his subsequent careers.

Hoover began working in California mines as an ordinary laborer, but he soon obtained a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture.
During the next two decades he traveled through much of Asia, Africa, and
Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London.

Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war- torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a well-earned reputation that he lost only after the 1929 Wall Street debacle.
The commission fed 10,000,000 people during the war and left funds for
Belg...

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...rbert Clark
Hoover (1903-69); Alan Henry Hoover (1907- )

Political Affiliation: Republican Writings: The Challenge of Liberty
(1934); America's First Crusade (1942); Memoirs (3 vols., 1951-52); The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (1958)

Died: Oct. 20, 1964, New York City Buried: West Branch, Iowa

Vice-President: Charles Curtis

Cabinet Members:^ Secretary of State: Henry L. Stimson Secretary of the
Treasury: Andrew W. Mellon (1929-32); Ogden L. Mills (1932-33) Secretary of
War: James W. Good (1929); Patrick J. Hurley (1929-33) Attorney General:
William DeWitt Mitchell Postmaster General: Walter F. Brown Secretary of the Navy: Charles F. Adams Secretary of the Interior: Ray L. Wilbur
Secretary of Agriculture: Arthur M. Hyde Secretary of Commerce: Robert P.
Lamont (1929-32); Roy D. Chapin (1932-33) Secretary of Labor: James J.
Davis (1929-30); William N. Doak (1930-33)

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