“A great American has ended a brilliant career of service to his fellow men. Above all, he was a humanitarian. He fed more people and saved more lives than any other man in history.”
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 before being elected president in 1928. His presidency was dominated by the Great Depression, and his policies and methods to combat it were seen as inadequate and overly conservative. Amid his unpopularity, he decisively lost re-election to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
politics · President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 · politician · engineer · writer · mining engineer · geologist · businessperson · statesperson · author · minister · also Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, Herbert C. Hoover, President Hoover, H. C. Hoover, H. Hoover
Born 10 August 1874 · Died 20 October 1964 · Q35236
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“given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation”
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“twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!”
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Sioux County Radio: Belgium official talks about Iowan Herbert Hoover’s lasting legacy
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Iowa Public Radio: Renovated Hoover museum tells immersive story of former president's life and service
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KCRG: Ask 9: What's new at the Herbert Hoover Museum?
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Yahoo: Herbert Hoover museum reopens after $20 million renovation
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Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum reopening celebrates his legacy - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
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KCRG: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum reopens after 19-month renovation
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KCRG: ‘Heartland hospitality’: West Branch community prepares for Herbert Hoover Museum reopening
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Public attention spiked: 13,709 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 3,455, with 1 article edits.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Viral posts retell a true story about the encounters between former U.S. President Herbert Hoover and Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski.” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover are the only U.S. presidents on record who left office with fewer total jobs than when they entered office.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Radio announcer Harry von Zell once introduced U.S. President Herbert Hoover during a broadcast of a live address or inauguration ceremony as "Hoobert Heever."” Mixture.
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That Hoover was "one of the most extraordinary Americans of modern times," adding that Hoover "led a life that was a prototypical Horatio Alger story, except that Horatio Alger stories stop at the pinnacle of success"
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After being edited by historian George H
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Died 1964-10-20.
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“Opis: wiersz Herbert Hoover.”
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“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”
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“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”
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“Opis: o upamiętnieniu Herberta Hoovera w Warszawie.”
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“Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.”
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“Opis: „Robotnik”, dziennik PPS, opisując bankiet charytatywny na rzecz Polski, przygotowany przez Herberta Hoovera, w nowojorskim hotelu Commodore.”
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Congress passed the Former Presidents Act, offering a $25,000 yearly pension (equivalent to $278,979 in 2025) to each former president
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Awarded Horatio Alger Award (1953).
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Dewey, as governor of New York, offered Hoover the Senate seat vacated by Robert F
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Truman appointed Hoover to lead the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, a new high level study
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Truman selected the former president to tour Allied-occupied Germany and Rome, Italy to ascertain the food needs of the occupied nations
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Hoover advised President Harry S
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At which point Hoover began to live permanently at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City
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They would remain married until Lou Henry Hoover's death in 1944.
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Began working on Freedom Betrayed, which he often referred to as his "magnum opus"
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Hoover expressed his support for Zionism
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And after that no other military or administration official was given the task of continuing the briefings
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One week after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Hoover disparaged any "tacit alliance" between the U
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Hoover provided aid for Belgian civilians, though this aid was described as unnecessary by German broadcasts
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Lille (1938).
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Is now a National Historic Landmark within the Shenandoah National Park
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Japan invaded Manchuria, where they set up a puppet state Manchukuo
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Hoover rejected the advice of some of his closest allies and refused to endorse any revision of the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment, as he feared doing so would undermine his support among Prohibition advocates
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Won Hoover Medal (1930).
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Promulgated an executive order requiring individuals to have employment before migrating to the United States
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Released the Clark Memorandum, a rejection of the Roosevelt Corollary and a move towards non-interventionism in Latin America
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Won John Fritz Medal (1929).
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Awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership (1929).
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Hoover assumed the presidency
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1929–1933).
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers elected Hoover an honorary member
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1928–1929).
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American diplomat Walter Page described Hoover as "probably the only man living who has privately (i
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And is now known as the Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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With Hoover arguing that there "is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which members, willing and anxious to work are deprived of these ne
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Commerce (1921–1928).
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Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (1920).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Tallinn (1920).
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Harding rewarded Hoover for his support, offering to appoint him as either Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Commerce
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (1919).
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Awarded Washington Award (1919).
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In Stanford, California, is now the official residence of the president of Stanford University, and a National Historic Landmark
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“Opis: „Kurier Warszawski” w 1919.”
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Hoover established the Hoover War Collection at Stanford University
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For his role as chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Hoover was awarded the title "Ami de la nation belge" ("Friend of the Belgian Nation") which, by royal directive, it was determined that Hoover would be t
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to lead the U
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After 1916, the Hoovers began living in the United States, maintaining homes in Stanford, California, and Washington, D.C.
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The outbreak of World War I, he organized and headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium, an international relief organization that provided food to occupied Belgium
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“I did not realize it at the moment, but on August 3, 1914, my career was over forever. I was on the slippery road of public life.”
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Hoover and his wife published the first English translation of De re metallica
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As Principles of Mining, which became a standard textbook
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After the British government formed two separate royal commissions to investigate Bewick's labor practices and financial dealings in Western Australia
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Hoover and his wife had two children: Herbert Hoover Jr. (born in 1903) and Allan Henry Hoover (born in 1907).
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The Hoover family began living in London in 1902, though they frequently traveled as part of Hoover's career.
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Though they frequently traveled as part of Hoover's career
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Won Memorial medal of the Winter War.
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Career landmark: Governor-General of the Philippines.
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Studied at George Fox University.
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Career landmark: president.
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Hoover cabled Lou Henry, asking her to marry him
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Immediately after earning a promotion in 1898, Hoover cabled Lou Henry, asking her to marry him.
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Studied at Stanford University (1891–1895).
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The country was in the midst of the Panic of 1893 and he initially struggled to find a job
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Despite failing all the entrance exams except mathematics
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Of typhoid, leaving Hoover, his older brother, Theodore, and his younger sister, May, as orphans
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At the age of 34 of a sudden heart attack
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Born 1874-08-10.
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