Herbert Hoover

Loye Daniel and Clay LaVeist

Early Childhood Life

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Where From West Branch, IA
Where Born
When August 10, 1874
He when to college at Stanford University (1891
1895

Previous Political Experience

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States Secretary of
Commerce (19211928)
the head of the United States
Department of Commerce

Personality
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Three personality traits
Hoover was hardworking, incorruptible, self-assured and selfreliant. But he was also aloof, shy, wary of crowds, awkward at
superficial social relations, and extremely sensitive to criticism.

Family Life
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Wife Lou Henry Hoover
Children Allan Hoover and
Herbert Hoover Jr. are his
sons
Brother and sister Theodore
J. Hoover is the brother
and the sister is Mary
Hoover
Mom and daddy is Jesse
Hoover father and mother is
Hulda Hoover

Campaign
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Republican Party
4 years (1 Term)
He ran against Coolige.
A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage

Terms
1 Term
March 4, 1929 March 4, 1933

Major Accomplishments
Presided over the 1929 Wall Street Crash and
the Great Depression and initiated
government economic recovery programs
in the spirit of public-private partnerships
that met with limited success
Promoted public works efforts such as the
Hoover Dam
Increased tariffs with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
in order to encourage the purchase of
American-made goods. (Instead, the Act
resulted in contracted international trade and
a worsening of the Great Depression)
Raised taxes by increasing the top tax bracket
from 25% to 63% and increasing corporate
taxes

Scandals
When veterans of World War I gathered in the capitol to demand pay bonuses they were promised
after many were left jobless from the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the Army to
go in and break up the protesters. Unfortunately for Hoover, the general in charge of Army troops,
Douglas MacArthur, was under the impression that he was breaking up a socialist gathering, and was
especially harsh in the methods he used to disperse the veterans. Already unpopular for his handling of
the Depression, the brutal crushing of veterans earned him no love from the public, and he would find
himself voted out at the end of his first term.

Life After Presidency

Still a relatively youthful man upon his defeat in 1932, the fifty-eight-year-old former President lived
another thirty-two years before his death on October 20, 1964. Immediately after the inauguration of
Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover retreated to his home in Palo Alto, California.

Political Cartoons

Quotes From Herbert &

Spouse
About the time we think we can
make ends meet, somebody
moves the ends.
Older men declare war. But it is
the youth that must fight and
die.
Blessed are the young, for they
shall inherit the national debt

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