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Herbert HooverView Program

31st President - Herbert Hoover
Born: August 10, 1874
Died: October 20, 1964

  • Personal
  • First Lady: Lou Henry Hoover
  • Children: 2
  • Education Level: College
  • School Attended: Stanford University
  • Profession: Mining Engineer
  • Public Service
  • Dates of Presidency: March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933
  • # of Terms: 1
  • Vice President: Charles Curtis
  • Party: Republican
  • Cabinet Service: Sec. of Commerce (Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921-1928
  • Other Offices: Head of Commission for Relief in Belgium; US Food Administrator; Director of American Relief Administration
  • Did You Know?
  • During his term as President, Adolph Hitler came into power.
  • He was president during the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
  • He was the first president born west of the Mississippi.
  • While he was in the White House, the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as our national anthem.
  • Did You Know?
  • During his term as President, Adolph Hitler came into power.
  • He was president during the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
  • He was the first president born west of the Mississippi.
  • While he was in the White House, the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as our national anthem.
  • He refused to accept a salary for the presidency.
  • His wife, Lou Henry Hoover, restored the Lincoln study for her husband’s use and had reproductions of Monroe furniture made with her own money.
  • Hoover started out as an orphan and eventually became a self-made millionaire.
  • "True Liberalism is found not in striving to spread bureaucracy but in striving to set bounds to it."
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The Peabody Award-winning series profiles the men who have served as chief executive of the United States. This website, created as a companion to C-SPAN's 20th anniversary television series, provides an in-depth look at each of the presidents, their lives, families and administrations.