Who is Herbert Hoover?
Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States, serving at the beginning of the Great Depression. A world renowned mining engineer and advocate of progress, Herbert Hoover was born of Quaker roots and led many humanitarian efforts during and after World War I. Hoover, a Republican, was elected President in 1928 and served only one term before being defeated for reelection in 1932 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Born in Iowa in 1874 as Herbert Clark Hoover, son of Jesse and Hulva Hoover. Hoover grew up in Oregon and lost both his parents at an early age. By the age of ten, Herbert Hoover was orphaned and went to live with his uncle. Hoover failed to graduate from high school, but later pursued an education at Stanford University where he earned a degree in geology. His studies at Stanford led to a career as a mining engineer and he eventually became a partner in a mining firm, traveling the world. Herbert Hoover’s political career began in the early 1900s. He served as
HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce; Engineer; b. West Branch, Ia., Aug. 10, 1874; Educ. B.A. (in mining engring.), Leland Stanford, Jr., U., 1895; (LL.D., Brown U., U. of Pa., Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oberlin, U. of Ala., Liege, Brussels; D.C.L., Oxford); Asst. Ark. Geol. Survey, 1893, U. S. Geol. Survey, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1895; in W. Australia as chief of mining staff of Bewick, Moreing & Co. and mgr. Hannan’s Brown Hill Mine, 1897; chief engr. Chinese Imperial Bur. of Mines, 1899, doing extensive exploration in interior of China. Took part in defense of Tientsin during Boxer disturbances; Chmn. Am. Relief Com. London, 1914-15, Commn. for Relief in Belgium, 1915-18; chmn. food com. Council of Nat. Defense, Apr.-Aug. 1917; apptd. U. S. food administrator by President Wilson, Aug. 10, 1917, resigned June, 1919. Secretary of Commerce, 1921. . . . *** One reads in the press daily of Hughes and Hoover, or Mellen and Hoover, or Davis and Hoover, or Wallace and Hoover. If it is a q