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Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch Iowa -
Lou Henry, also known as Herbert Hoover's wife, was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to Charles and Florence Henry -
Hoover's father, a blacksmith, and farm implement store owner died. -
Hulda Mintorn Hoover died, leaving Herbert and hi siblings orphaned. -
Hoover moved to Oregon to live with his uncle because his parents passed away. -
Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy for his high school education. -
Herbert worked as an office boy at the Oregon Land Company in Salem, Oregon -
He graduated from Stanford in 1895 with a BA in geology. -
Hoover was married on February 10,1899 to Lou Henry. The location of their marriage was -
Herbert and his wife Lou went to China for Herbert's new job as a mining consultant to the chinese government. -
Herbert Charles Hoover was born in 1903. -
Allan Henry Hoover was born in 1907. -
Before he became president Hoover was a very succsessful mining engineer. -
Herbert Hoover oorganized the Commision for Relief in Begium. It provided food to millions of civilians in Belgium and northern France. -
During Word War one, Herbert Hoover was named the head of the U.S. Food Administration. -
The Hoovers helped American who were stranded at the begining of WW1 to return home. -
The European Children's Fund was the second component of the American Relief Administration. -
Hoover was made Secretary of Commerce by Presisdent Harding. He served in the Cabinets of both Harding and Coolidge. -
Herbert Hoover wrote American Individualism, a book that outlined the characteristics that made American society unique and successful. -
Hoover's son Herbert Charles Hoover Jr. married Margaret Ava Watson -
Herbert Hoover was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican Party National Convention in Kansas City. -
Hoover was elected to be the 31st president. -
Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as the 31st president of the United States. -
The Wall Street stock market crashed, which signaled the begining of The Great Depression. -
Immediately following the Inauguration, President Hoover called a special session of Conress to adress the ongoing farm crisis. The Agricultural Act was passed, which established a Federal Farm Board that worked to stabalize agricultural prices. -
Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law, which set tariffs to historically high levels. -
President Hoover combined all federal veterans services into one angency, the Veterans Administration. -
Secretary of the interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, initiated consrtuction of the Hoover Dam in Nevada. It was completed in 1936. -
Hoover was renominated for president. -
Hoover died in New York City at the age of 90.