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Herbert Clark Hoover born
Herbert Hoover was born to Jesse and Hulda Hoover on August 10th , 1874. -
Herbert's Sibilings
Herbert Hoover had one brother, Theodore, who was 3 1/2 years older, and one sister, Mary (called May) who was 2 years younger. -
Herbert Hoover Orphaned
Herbert was orphaned when he was only nine years old. He had to go live with his uncle in Newberg, Oregon. -
Herbert attends Friends Pacific Academy
Herbert attended Friends Pacific Academy, in Newberg Oregon, for his elementary years. He never did go to high school. -
Herbert goes to Stanford
Herbert then attended Stanford University for four years for college. He was one of the first people to attend, because the university was so new. -
87 honorary degrees!
Herbert Hoover received 87 honorary degrees during his lifetime, which in his day, was some sort of world record. -
Herbert Hoover gets married!
Herbert Hoover married Lou Henry on February 10th, 1899. They knew each other because they went to college together. -
Herbert Hoover's first child.
Herbert Hoover Jr. was born on August 4th, 1903 to a happy Herbert and Lou Hoover. -
Herbert Hoover has a second child!
Alan Henry Hoover was born on July 17th, 1907. Herbert Hoover and Lou Hoover are loving their two precious boys. -
The country's food czar.
After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed. He became known as the country's "Food Czar". He helped save millions of people during the 1st world war. -
Asteroids Named After Hoover?
Herbert Hoover has two asteroids named after him. One is called Hooveria, discovered in 1920. The second is called Herberta, discovered in 1935. -
Nobel Peace Prize
Herbert was awarded five nobel peace prizes. One in 1921- 1933- 1941- 1946 and 1964. -
Longest serving Commerce Secretary
Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce from March 5, 1921 to August 21, 1928, when he resigned to run for President. To this day, he is the longest serving Commerce Secretary in U. S. history. -
Turn on the television!
Herbert Hoover was the first person to appear on television, on April 7, 1927, in a demonstration transmission conducted between Washington and New York by Bell Laboratories -
Ring Ring
Herbert Hoover was the first president to ever have a telephone on his desk. -
Mr. President
Herbert Hoover, republican, has become our 31st president. The year is 1928. He doesn't know this, but he is in for quite a term. -
Empire State construction begins
The Empire State Building's construction has begun. This will become the sixth tallest freestanding building in the whole United States. It has over 100 floors and was completed in a year and 45 days. -
The first annual Academy Awards
The first annual Academy Awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was held at an Academy banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It happened on May 16th, 1929. This was a very big deal because the movies had just begun to talk. The tickets only cost $5. 270 people had attended, including President Hoover. -
The Great Depression
The stock markets have failed, and the Great Depression has begun. President Hoover is in for quite a ride, as he is partly to blame. Ever since he signed The Agricultural Marketing Act. It was made originally to help the farmers with their money, but it turned out to be world wide and that is when the stock market failed. -
Hoover Dam Constructed
The Hoover Dam was constructed in honor of our president, Herbert Hoover. The dam cost $49 million to build.
It stands 726 feet tall and 1,244 feet long.
There were also significant downsides to the project: Over 100 construction workers were killed, and the Dam had a large impact on the Colorado River, flooding wildlife habitats and changing its natural flow of the Colorado. Stevens notes this would not pass today's environmental impact assessments. -
Agricultural Marketing Act
In response to the depression gripping rural America, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, which created the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board, with a stabilization fund of $500 million, was the subject of a Senate Committee hearing January 31, 1930. Herbert Hoover signed this in hopes of a better economy. This plan failed. -
Star Spangled Banner adopted!
The country's new national anthem, as of 1931, is a famous song called The Star Spangled Banner. It was written by Francis Scott Key. It was adopted on March 3rd, 1931, one day before President Hoover's term ended. -
Hoover signs the revenue act of 1932
It increased all individual income tax rates with the top rate rising from 25 percent to 63 percent. The act broadened the income tax base, raised the corporate tax rate from 12 percent to 13.75 percent, and increased the top estate tax rate from 20 percent to 45 percent. -
Great depression Ends
In most affected countries, the Great Depression was technically over by 1933, meaning that by then their economies had started to recover. Most did not experience full recovery until the late 1930s or early 1940s though. -
Post Presidency
In addition to public service, Hoover devoted his post-Presidential years to social causes such as the Boys Clubs of America and the Hoover Institution, a research center he had established on the Stanford campus in 1919. He also wrote more than 40 books during those years. -
Herbert Hoover's term is over
Herbert Hoover's term ended in 1933. He lost his second run against Franklin D. Roosevelt. Everyone still blamed him for the depression, so that made him lose 5 to 1. We will always remember him. 🫡 -
Hoover helps with postwar recovery in Europe
In late May 1945, only six weeks after Roosevelt’s death, Hoover met with President Harry Truman and the two men planned for the recovery of postwar Europe. At Truman’s request, Hoover traveled the world to provide the President with a personal assessment of world food needs. Hoover later agreed to Dwight Eisenhower’s request to have a second Hoover commission from 1953 to 1955, but he was later frustrated by the President’s apparent lack of support for the commission. -
Hoover Library
Hoover’s attention returned to Iowa late in the 1950s when he agreed to allow friends and associates to construct a “Presidential library” near the site of his birthplace. Hoover insisted that the building be modest in size in accordance with the scale of the other buildings in the community. The former President made his last visit to Iowa on August 10, 1962, to dedicate that building to the American people. -
Rest in Peace Mr. President
President Herbert Hoover died on October 20th, 1964. He died due to liver failure. His grave overlooks his old cottage in West Branch, Iowa. Lou's grave sits right next to her husband's. -
Longest time!
Herbert Hoover lived for 31 years, 231 days after leaving office, longer than any other Former-President until President Jimmy Carter surpassed him on September 7, 2012.