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Early Life
 Born: August 11, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa
 Father: Jesse Hoover
 Mother: Huldah Minthorn Hoover
 1 brother, Theodore
 1 sister, Mary
 Orphan at age 9
Mother and Father 
 Bert, Brother & Sister
Childhood Home 
Schooling & Jobs
 Locals Schools as a Youth
 Did not graduate from High School
 Stanford University
 Mining consulting firm
Mid-Life
 Married Lou Henry February 10, 1899
 Two sons
 Lived in London in 1901
 Hoover and Lou published the translation of De re
Metallica
 Before Presidency; During World War I
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American Relief Committee
Belgium Relief Committee
Served as U.S. Food administrator
War and Peace Efforts
1921-1928 served as the Secretary of Commerce for
Presidents Hording and Collidge
 Wife and two sons
Bert Fishing 
Presidency
 31st President of the United States
 1929-1933
 Charles Curtis
 1928 elected at the Republican Candidate
 Ran against Alfred Smith
 Won by 58% and 444 of 531 votes
 Prosperous first year until Black Thursday
 Was blamed for The Depression
 Bonus Bill
 Refused which made the veterans very upset
 100,000 to send the people home on train
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 Bonus Army
Presidency Continued
 Supported zoning regulations
 Eight hour work days in major industries
 Improve nutrition for children
 Conservation of natural resources
 Believed in free enterprise and volunteer efforts
 Defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt
 Retired to Palo Alto, California
 Coordinator for Food Supply for World Famine
 Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the
Executive Branch of the Government
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Administration and Cabinet
President
Herbert Hoover 1929–1933
Vice PresidentCharles Curtis 1929–1933
Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson
1929–1933
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon 1929–1932
Ogden L. Mills 1932–1933
Secretary of War
James W. Good 1929
Patrick J. Hurley 1929–1933
Attorney General
William D. Mitchell
1929–1933
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown 1929–1933
Secretary of the Navy Charles F. 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
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Roy D. Chapin 1932–1933
 Secretary of Labor
James J. Davis 1929–1930
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William N. Doak
1930–1933
 Herberts Angry Face 
 U.S. Food Administration
Accomplishments
 U.S. Food Administration during WWI
 Commerce Department
 Help organize trade association groups of firms in the
same line of business to minimize prize competition
 Bureau of Standards
Accomplishments Continued
 Reconstruction Finance Corporation- 1923
 Largest ever proposed by any President
 2 billion in loans
 Theory: stimulate industry and eventually create more
jobs.
 Emergency Relief Act-1932 added an extra 300 million
 Pollution Act of 1924
 Federal Farm Board- 1929
Late Life & Death
 80th Birthday
 Helped build up and organize 600 Boys Clubs of America
 At 88 went to West Branch
 “I am ready to serve in any capacity, from office boy up.”
 Finals years her wrote, Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution, and Peace.
 90th birthday 16 states declared August 10th Herbert Hoover
Day
 Died October 20th
 Funeral at Cedar Rapid Iowa
 Buried next to Lou
 “Herbert Hoover, for all of his early optimism
and organized skills, was defeated by The
Depression and its crushing economic
problems.”
Bibliography
 American Odyssey. Westerville, OH: Glencoe, 1976.
 Holford, David M. Herbert Hoover. Library of Congress, 1999.
 Polikoff, Barbara G. Herbert C. Hoover. Ada, OK: Garrett
Education Corportation, 1990.
 Wilson, Joan H. Heart Hoover Forgotten Progressive. Little,
Brown and Company, 1975.
 Andrist, Ralph K. The American Hertiage History of the 20's &
30's. NY: American Hertiage Co., 1970.
 http://home.nps.gov/heho/photosmultimedia/birthplace.htm
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