OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Herbert Clark Hoover
BORN:
August 10, 1874;
West Branch, Iowa
DIED:
October 20, 1964 (age 90);
New York City, New York
PARENTS:
EDUCATION:
Stanford University (BS in Geology, 1895)
CHILDREN:
Herbert Hoover, Jr (1901-
Allan Hoover (1907-
POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican
HIGHLIGHTS:
1885:
Moved to Newberg, Oregon to Live with Uncle (John Minthorn);
Attended Friends Pacific Academy
1888:
Worked at Oregon Land Company in Salem, Oregon
1891:
Entered Stanford University as Member of First Class
1896:
Worked in San Francisco for Mining Engineer Louis Janin;
1897:
Hired by the British mining firm Bewick, Moreing & Co;
Traveled to London and Australia
1899:
Married Lou Henry (2/10/1899);
Moved to China and served as Mining Consultant to Chinese government
1900:
Lived in Tientsin, China during the Boxer Rebellion
1901:
Became Partner at Bewick, Moreing & Co;
Known as a “Doctor of Sick Mines”
1908:
Retired from Bewick, Moreing & Co;
Became an Independent Mining Consultant;
Traveled Internationally until World War I
1913:
Published an English Translation of a 16th Century Latin Text on Mining (De Re Metallica)
1914:
Helped Americans stranded in Europe at beginning of WWI to return home:
Helped organize the Commission for Relief in Belgium to provide food assistance
1917-1918:
Director, U.S. Food Administration;
Coordinated Food Supplies During World War I
1918:
Founded American Relief Administration;
Provided $363 million in Relief to 21 European Countries During the Armistice; and
Fed 12-14 million children with European Children’s Fund
1921-1928:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1922:
Published American Individualism
1927:
Coordinated Mississippi Flood Relief Efforts
1928:
Toured Latin America
1929-1933:
31st President of the United States
6/15/1929:
Signed Agricultural Marketing Act that created the Federal Farm Board
October 1929:
Great Depression Began
11/19/1929:
Convened Conference on Industrial Progress
6/17/1930:
Signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law
7/21/1930:
Combined federal veterans programs into the Veterans Administration
9/17/1930:
Construction of the Hoover Dam Begins in Nevada
10/21/1930:
Created President’s Emergency Committee for Employment
3/3/1931:
Signed Legislation Designating the “Star Spangled Banner” as the national anthem
8/19/1931:
Established the President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief
1/22/1932:
Established Reconstruction Finance Corporation to provide loans to businesses, banks, and agricultural cooperatives
6/16/1932:
Re-nominated as Republican Candidate for President
7/28/1932:
Ordered Army to Evict the Bonus Army of veterans occupying federal buildings in Washington, DC to demand early payments of cash bonuses due in 1945
1932:
Defeated for Re-Election by Franklin Roosevelt
1934:
Published The Challenge to Liberty
1936
Elected Chairman of the Boy’s Club of America
1946:
Conducted world famine survey at request of President Truman
1947:
Appointed by President Truman to chair the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government (First Hoover Commission)
1953:
Appointed by President Eisenhower to chair the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government (Second Hoover Commission)
FIRST LADY:
VICE PRESIDENT:
RESOURCES:
BIOGRAPHIES:
Hoover Library
White House
UVA Miller Center
American Presidents (C-SPAN)
History Channel
Wikipedia
RESEARCH:
Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
Hoover Heads (Hoover Library Blog)
Published Materials (Hoover Library)
Public Papers (American Presidency Project)
Public Papers (National Archives/ University of Michigan)
Public Papers (National Archives)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
1928 ELECTION:
REPUBLICANS:
HERBERT C. HOOVER (PRESIDENT)
CHARLES CURTIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 444 (83.6%)
Popular Vote: 21,432,823 (58.2%)
DEMOCRATS:
ALFRED E. SMITH (PRESIDENT)
JOSEPH T. ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 37 (16.4%)
Popular Vote: 15,004,336 (40.8%)
1929 INAUGURATION:
1929 Address (Transcript, Video)
Library of Congress
Joint Congressional Committee
1932 ELECTION:
DEMOCRATS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
JOHN GARNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 472 (88.9%)
Popular Vote: 22,818,740 (57.4%)
REPUBLICANS:
HERBERT C. HOOVER (PRESIDENT)
CHARLES CURTIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 59 (11.1%)
Popular Vote: 15,760,425 (39.6%)
HOOVER ADMINISTRATION:
PRESS SECRETARY:
George E. Akerson (1929–1931)
Theodore Goldsmith Joslin (1931–1933)
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Arthur M. Hyde (1929–1933)
BUDGET DIRECTOR:
J. Clawson Roop (1929-1933)
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE:
Robert P. Lamont (1929–1932)
Roy D. Chapin (1932–1933)
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:
Ray L. Wilbur (1929–1933)
ATTORNEY GENERAL:
William DeWitt Mitchell (1929–1933)
SECRETARY OF LABOR:
James J. Davis (1921–1930)
William N. Doak (1930–1933)
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY:
Charles F. Adams III (1929–1933)
POSTMASTER GENERAL:
Walter F. Brown (1929–1933)
SECRETARY OF STATE:
Henry L. Stimson (1929–1933)
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
Andrew W. Mellon (1921–1932)
Ogden L. Mills (1932–1933)
DIRECTOR OF THE VETERANS BUREAU:
Frank T. Hines (1923-1945)
SECRETARY OF WAR:
James W. Good (1929)
Patrick J. Hurley (1929–1933)
CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE:
Eugene I. Meyer (1930-1933)
SUPREME COURT NOMINEES:
Charles Evans Hughes (1930-1941)
John J. Parker (Rejected)
Owen J. Roberts (1930-1945)
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1932-1938)
CONGRESS:
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE:
Nicholas Longworth (1925-1931)
John N. Garner (1931-1933)
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:
James E. Watson (1929-1933)
HISTORIC SITES:
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (Iowa)
The Hoover-Minthorn House Museum (Oregon)
MEDIA COVERAGE:
OBITUARIES (10/20/1964):
New York Times