Herbert Hoover facts - 31st President of USA

The thirty-first president of the United States of America Herbert Hoover Facts. Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.


Interesting to know that, he is the only president to be born in Iowa.

Herbert Hoover Life

His father and mother were both Quakers, and their names were Jesse Hoover, a blacksmith, and Hulda Hoover. In 1880, Herbert's father died, and in 1884, his mother died. This left Hoover an orphan at only the age of nine.

He stayed with his grandmother in Kingsley for a short period of time, and his uncle Allen Hoover for eighteen months. Then he went to Newberg, Oregon with his uncle John MInthorn. He went to school at Friends Pacific Academy and then worked as an office assistant in Salem in his uncle's real estate office.

Herbert Hoover Education

Even though he did not attend high school, he did attend night school and learned bookkeeping, math, and typing. His college life began In 1891 at Stanford University and he did not have to pay tuition. Also, he traveled to Australia In 1897 as a mining engineer and geologist.

Herbert Hoover Marriage

Hoover married his sweetheart from Stanford, Lou Henry, in 1899. They had two sons, Herbert Clark Jr. and Allan Henry. This couple knows Mandarin Chinese that benefit them to speak privately while they were in the White House.

President Herbert Hoover

Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America. Under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he was the United States Secretary of Commerce.

It wasn't tuff to won the Republican nomination for president in 1928. It is also important to note that he did not have any prior elected office experience.

Hoover is only one of two Presidents without high military rank or electoral experience before becoming President. During his Presidency, the Wall Street Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and this took place only eight months following him taking office.

However, hoover is normally ranked low on the ratings by historians as a U.S. President  This is mainly due to his inability to produce economic recovery to the Great Depression. His attempts to improve the economy were primarily based on volunteerism.

Not to mention but, Hoover did little to help with civil rights. It was his belief that Whites were superior to African Americans. He did not stop Jim Crow laws that kept African Americans from voting as was promised in the 15th Amendment in the Constitution of the United States.

Herbert Hoover died when he was 90 years old in New York City on October 20, 1964. He has had the longest retirement of any President of the United States.

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NICKNAME
Chief

BIRTH
Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874
in West Branch, Iowa

MOTHER
Huldah Randall Minthorn

FATHER
Jesse Clark Hoover

SISTERS
Mary (May)

BROTHERS
Theodore Jesse

MARRIAGE
Lou Henry on February 10, 1899
in Monterey, California

CHILDREN
Herbert Charles and Allan Henry

HOME
Herbert Hoover Birthplace, West Branch, Iowa

EDUCATION
Stanford University, 1895

RELIGION
Quaker

PRE-PRESIDENCY PROFESSION
Engineer

MILITARY SERVICE
None

POLITICAL LIFE

World War I Relief efforts:
Belgium Relief (1914-1919)
US Food Administrator (1917-1918)
War Trade Council (1917-1920)
Sugar Equalization Board (1918-1920)
European Coal Council(1919)
American Relief Administration(1919-1920)
Economic Director of Supreme Economic Council (1918-1920)
Economic Advisor to Woodrow Wilson

Secretary of Commerce (1921-1928)
US President, one term

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

INAUGURATION
March 4, 1929, at the age of 54
Herbert Clark Hoover - Inaugural Address

Herbert Hoover Administration

PRESIDENCY
One term (March 4, 1929-March 4, 1933)

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Curtis (1929-1933)

FIRST LADY
Lou Henry Hoover (1929-1933)
Facts about Lou Hoover
Biography of Lou Hoover

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice (1930)
Owen J. Roberts (1930)
Benjamin N. Cardoza (1932)

AMENDMENTS ENACTED
20th Amendment

Herbert Hoover Cabinet
SECRETARY OF STATE
Henry L Stimson (1929-1933)

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Andrew W. Mellon (1929-1932)
Ogden L. Mills (1932-1933)

SECRETARY OF WAR
James W. Good (1929, March-November)
Patrick J. Hurley (1929-1933)

ATTORNEY GENERAL
William D. Mitchell (1929-1933)

POSTMASTER GENERAL
Walter F. Brown (1929-1933)

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
Charles Francis Adams (1929-1933)

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Ray L. Wilbur (1929-1933)

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Arthur M. Hyde (1929-1933)

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
Robert P. Lamont (1929-1932)
Roy D. Chapin (1932-1933)

SECRETARY OF LABOR
James J. Davis (1929-1930)
William N. Doak (1930-1933)

POST PRESIDENCY LIFE

Chairman of Organizational Commissions: Polish Relief, Finnish
Relief Fund, Food supply for World famine; (Hoover Commissions)
Executive Branch; Writer

DEATH
October 20, 1964, in New York City at the age of 90

BURIAL PLACE
West Branch, Iowa

LANDMARKS
Newberg, Oregon (Boyhood home)
Hoover Institution Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (including birthplace, presidential library, museum, and grave) West Branch, Iowa