Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
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Thirty-first president of the U.S. (1929-1933), U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1920s), head of American Food Administration (under Woodrow Wilson), mining engineer, and author.
Herbert Hoover was chair of the Finnish Relief Fund.
Harry Chandler was an American newspaper publisher (Los Angeles Times) and investor who became owner of the largest real estate empire in the United States. At the time this letter was written he had just retired from the Stanford University Board of Trustees. Harry Chandler's daughter, May, married Roger Gordan in 1915.
President Hoover, a Quaker, was succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
United States President.
United States Secretary of Commerce.
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American statesman, best known as the thirty-first President of the United States, 1929-1933. Born to a Quaker family in Iowa, Hoover was raised in Oregon after being orphaned at nine. A member of the very first class at Stanford University, he turned his geology degree into a fortune as a mining engineer, before turning his attention to philanthropy and later politics, serving as Food Administrator during World War I and then as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. His progressive ideas and popular acclaim helped him make a successful run for President in 1927; his administration was plagued by the Great Depression, and Hoover's inability to address the financial crisis made him one of the least popular presidents in American history. Ironically, many of his policies were adapted by President Roosevelt for the New Deal. He lived for thirty-one years after his presidency, and remained active in politics and society.
U.S. president and statesman.
Hoover served as 31st president of the United States from 1929-1933.
Herbert Hoover, born in West Branch, Iowa, in 1874, made his fortune as a mining engineer and gained international acclaim for his humanitarian efforts during and after World War I before being elected 31st President of the United States (1929-1933).
Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce at the time this letter was written.
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and 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. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Committee, which assisted more than one hundred thousand Americans trapped in Europe at the outbreak of World War I. During the war he was praised for his efficiency as head of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, as U.S. Food Administrator, and as chairman of the Interallied Food Council. After the war he directed the American Relief Administration. All told, Hoover was responsible for distributing more than $5 billion worth of food, clothing, and supplies during and after the war, and he was deservedly acclaimed worldwide as a great humanitarian. From 1918 into the early 1920s Europeans sent him tens of thousands of cards, letters, and drawings to express their gratitude for their "Hoover lunches." In Finland to "hoover" came to mean to act in a kindly and helpful manner. In the United States to "hooverize" came to mean to ration one''s food and supplies, because while he was U.S. Food Administrator in 1917-1918, Hoover importuned the nation to conserve voluntarily resources and comply with meatless and wheatless days. Franklin D. Roosevelt said of Hoover in 1920, "He is certainly a wonder and I wish we could make him President of the United States. There could not be a better one." In 1919 Hoover founded the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. As Secretary of Commerce in the Harding and Coolidge administrations from 1921 to 1929, Hoover was widely celebrated for his leadership. Known to insiders as "Secretary of Commerce and Under Secretary of Everything Else," Hoover made Commerce one of the most active cabinet departments. Not a doctrinaire conservative like many other Republican cabinet officers of the decade, Hoover championed progressive capitalism, attempting to balance laissez-faire dogma with humanitarian values. Hoover strove to implement his principles of "cooperative capitalism" by forging an alliance between government and business that relied on experts and volunteers to promote efficiency and self-regulation. To accomplish these goals he organized hundreds of national conferences to study business and economic trends, bringing together experts, amassing information, and disseminating new ideas for making business more efficient and profitable. One of Hoover''s crowning achievements was his encouragement of western states to cooperate in building a major dam, later named in his honor, on the Colorado River. He also coordinated relief efforts after the Mississippi River flood of 1927, one of the worst natural disasters of the decade. In 1928 he defeated Democrat Al Smith for the presidency. Inaugurated on March 4, 1929, Hoover had been president only seven months when the stock market crashed. During the first eight months of his presidency Hoover had exhibited his progressive tendencies through conservation policy, prison reform, a conference on child welfare, and the promotion of humanitarian treatment of African Americans. Ironically, at the start of his campaign he had declared that Americans were approaching "the final triumph over poverty," and he praised Americans'' "rugged individualism" as a solution to the nation''s economic problems. When it became clear that the Depression could not be ended without government intervention, Hoover reversed his stand and initiated a series of innovative federal programs in an attempt to counteract the economic downturn. But the economy continued to worsen, and he was handily defeated by Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1932. During Hoover''s 1932 campaign one of his critics, Walter Lippmann, observed: "Mr. Hoover has long since abandoned his old faith in rugged individualism. His platform is a document of indefatigable paternalism. Its spirit is that of the Great White Father providing help for all his people. Every conceivable interest which has votes is offered protection, or subsidies, or access of some kind to the Treasury." After his defeat, Hoover kept silent on public policy for two years. In late 1934 he began his attack on the New Deal with The Challenge to Liberty, a book in which he articulated his ideological views. He remained active in the Republican Party, quietly and unsuccessfully seeking his party''s presidential nomination in 1936 and 1940. As an elder statesman he headed government commissions under Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Herbert Hoover, born in West Branch, Iowa, in 1874, made his fortune as a mining engineer and gained international acclaim for his humanitarian efforts during and after World War I before being elected 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). Harriet Taylor Upton, born in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1853, was involved in the women's suffrage movement, was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the Republican National Committee, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1926, and authored several books of history.
Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, 1929-1933, earned his A.B. in geology at Stanford University in May 1895. He founded the Hoover War Library at Stanford in 1919 and was instrumental in creating the Food Research Institute and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He served on the university's Board of Trustees from 1912 to 1961.
President of the U.S.
J. Robert Oppenheimer who had been Executive Director of the Manhattan Project lost his security clearance because of alleged ties to the Communist Party. In 1920, Herbert Hoover was chair of the American Relief Administration; in 1959, he was a private citizen.
Hoover, Stanford University Trustee, founded the Hoover War Library at Stanford in 1919.
United States president, 1929-1933.
U.S. president.
Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929-1933).
Engineer, government official, president.
U. S. President.
U.S. President from 1929-1933.
Herbert Hoover was elected to Stanford University's Board of Trustees in 1912.
Engineer; later 31st United States President. In 1897 he travelled to the Coolgardie Goldfields, WA where he was employed by Berwick Moreing and Co. as a mining engineer. He managed the Sons of Gwalia Mine before returning to the United States in 1899.
Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the United States.
President of the United States.
President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) was born to Jessie and Hulda Minthorn Hoover in West Branch, Iowa. After the death of his parents, Hoover moved to Oregon and later graduated from Stanford University (1895). He married Lou Henry in 1899 and worked as a mining engineer in Australia and China. At the onset of World War I, Hoover managed a food relief effort as chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and was appointed head of the U.S. Food Administration in 1917. Following the war, Hoover served on the Supreme Economic Council and was head of the American Relief Administration, which oversaw the shipment of foodstuffs to Europe.
After serving as the Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover was elected to the presidency on the Republican ticket in 1929. During the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, Hoover sought a balanced Federal budget and was resistant to increasing Federal welfare programs. After the Great Depression spread throughout the world, he was defeated in 1932. In the 1930s, he was a critic of the New Deal and chaired commissions to increase the efficacy of the executive department in 1947 and 1953.
Source: “Herbert Hoover.” White House Biography. Accessed on May 5, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/herberthoover/
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American statesman, best known as the thirty-first President of the United States, 1929-1933. Born to a Quaker family in Iowa, Hoover was raised in Oregon after being orphaned at nine. A member of the very first class at Stanford University, he turned his geology degree into a fortune as a mining engineer, before turning his attention to philanthropy and later politics, serving as Food Administrator during World War I and then as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. His progressive ideas and popular acclaim helped him make a successful run for President in 1927; his administration was plagued by the Great Depression, and Hoover's inability to address the financial crisis made him one of the least popular presidents in American history. Ironically, many of his policies were adapted by President Roosevelt for the New Deal. He lived for thirty-one years after his presidency, and remained active in politics and society.
Richard LLoyd Noble, son of Eloise and Lloyd Noble. Memoriam can be found at: http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/newsletter/2003/spring/noble.html.
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Hoover, Stanford University Trustee, founded the Hoover War Library at Stanford in 1919.
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Herbert Hoover was elected to Stanford University's Board of Trustees in 1912.
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