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Feb 2, 2023 · Summer 2004, Vol. 36, No. 2 By Richard Norton Smith and Timothy Walch Herbert Hoover's inability to use the radio as an effective communication tool contributed to his election loss in 1932. (Herbert Hoover Library) Few Americans have known greater acclaim or more bitter criticism than Herbert Hoover. The son of a Quaker blacksmith, Hoover was orphaned at the age of nine and sent to live with ...
Herbert Hoover: Campaigns and Elections. When the Republican convention in Kansas City began in the summer of 1928, the fifty-three-year-old Herbert Hoover was on the verge of winning his party's nomination for President. He had won primaries in California, Oregon, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maryland.
Apr 20, 2008 · Herbert Hoover The Biography of Herbert Hoover 1874 - 1964 By: Tom Longden for Famous Iowans Des Moines Register series on April 20, 2008 Before he was president, Herbert Clark Hoover was an extraordinary humanitarian with an international reputation.
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) The first president from west of the Mississippi, Herbert Clark Hoover was born in the Quaker community of West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. His father Jesse, a blacksmith, died when Herbert was six. When his mother Huldah, a minister in the Society of Friends, died four years later, young Herbert was ...
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) The first president from west of the Mississippi, Herbert Clark Hoover was born in the Quaker community of West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. His father Jesse, a blacksmith, died when Herbert was six. When his mother Huldah, a minister in the Society of Friends, died four years later, young Herbert was ...
Public Service Herbert Hoover was raised a Quaker, although as an adult he rarely attended Meetings. He held fast the Quaker tenets: the power of the individual, the importance of freedom, and the value of charity. Hoover’s beliefs were also shaped by his training as an engineer—that scientific expertise properly employed leads to human progress. He strongly believed in public service. By ...
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge , he promoted economic modernization.
