American Decades
Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (1929-1933)
Depression-Era President.
The thirty-first president of the United States, Herbert Hoover was chief executive at the beginning of the worst economic depression in American history. His was a serious, incorruptible, and independent intellect. He lacked the personal charm and charisma of other politicians, but there was probably little that any sitting president could have done to win the popularity contest at the polls in 1932, and he lost the election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Background.
Born in Iowa on 10 August 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant.
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1930's Government and Politics
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- America and the Crisis of the Depression
- Democracy and the New Deal
- The Farm Crisis
- The Financial and Banking Crisis
- Help for the Common Man
- Industrial Policy
- Industry and Labor
- New Deal Opponents
- The New Deal Stalls
- Politics: The 1930 Elections
- Politics: The 1932 Republican Nomination Race
- Politics: The 1932 Democratic Nomination Race
- Politics: The 1932 Elections
- Politics: The 1934 Elections
- Politics: The 1936 Republican Nomination Race
- Politics: The 1936 Democratic Nomination Race
- Politics: The 1936 Elections
- Politics: The 1938 Elections
- Toward War: U.S. Foreign Policy and Isolationism
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Government and Politics, 1930–1939
