"Rugged Individualism"
Speech
By: Herbert Hoover
Date: October 22, 1928
Source: Hoover, Herbert. "Rugged Individualism" Presidential Campaign Speech, New York, N.Y., October 22, 1928. Available online at The History Net: http://history1900s.about.com/ (accessed January 29, 2003).
About the Author: Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) was the first American president born west of the Mississippi River. In 1883, he was orphaned when his mother died of pneumonia. In 1895, he graduated with a geology degree from Stanford University in California. By the age of forty, the skilled mineral engineer owned Burma silver mines and was a self-made multimillionaire. Hoover became president at the onset of the Great Depression.
Introduction
During World War I, Herbert Hoover earned a reputation as a great humanitarian. When war erupted in August 1914, the...
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