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Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874. For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, the place of his birth. His Quaker father, Jessie Clark Hoover, a blacksmith and farm equipment salesman, suffered a heart attack and died when Herbert was six years old. Three years later, the boy's mother ...
Herbert Hoover. The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists. Herbert Hoover. Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger. Herbert Hoover. Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Herbert Hoover. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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 ...
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.
Oct 20, 2014 · Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in a two-room, whitewashed cottage built by his father in West Branch, Iowa, a small prairie town of just 265 people. The future president did not ...
Herbert Hoover. Caracterizado como un liberal convencido de las virtudes del capitalismo individualista y competitivo, los republicanos le mantuvieron como secretario de Comercio durante las presidencias de Warren G. Harding y Calvin Coolidge (1921-1928); e incluso lo promovieron a la presidencia en las elecciones de 1928, que ganó en medio de ...
