The American President by Kathryn Moore

Author:Kathryn Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling

HERBERT HOOVER

★ ★ ★ THIRTY-FIRST PRESIDENT ★ ★ ★

LIFE SPAN

• Born: August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa

• Died: October 20, 1964, in New York City

NICKNAME

• Bert, The Chief

RELIGION

• Quaker (Society of Friends)

HIGHER EDUCATION

• Stanford University, 1895

PROFESSION

• Engineer

MILITARY SERVICE

• None

FAMILY

• Father: Jesse Clark Hoover (1846–1880)

• Mother: Huldah Randall Minthorn Hoover (1848–1883)

• Wife: Lou Henry Hoover (1874–1944); wed on February 10, 1899, in Monterey, California

• Children: Herbert Charles (1903–1969); Allan Henry (1907–1993)

POLITICAL LIFE

• Relief efforts during World War I: Belgium Relief (1914–1919); US Food administrator (1917–1918); War Trade Council (1917–1920); Sugar Equalization Board (1918–1920); European Coal Council (1919); American Relief Administration (1919–1920); economic director of Supreme Economic Council (1918–1920); economic advisor to President Woodrow Wilson at Versailles Peace Conference

• Secretary of commerce (1921–1928)

PRESIDENCY

• One term: March 4, 1929–March 4, 1933

• Republican

• Reason for leaving office: defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 election

• Vice president: Charles Curtis (1929–1933)

ELECTION OF 1928

• Electoral vote: Hoover 444; Alfred E. Smith 87

• Popular vote: Hoover 21,427,123; Smith 15,015,464

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