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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. He exemplified the Efficiency Movement component of the Progressive Era, arguing there were technical solutions to all social and economic problems—a position that was challenged by the Great Depression that began while he was President.
Family background
Hoover (whose family's name was originally Huber) was born into a Quaker family of distant German (Pfautz, Wehmeyer) and Swiss (Huber, Burkhart) descent, in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River. Both of his parents, Jesse Hoover and Hulda Minthorn, died when Hoover was young. His father died in 1880 and his mother in 1884.
In 1885, eleven-year-old "Bert" Hoover went to Newberg, Oregon to become the ward of his uncle John Minthorn, a doctor and real estate developer whom Hoover recalled as "a severe man on the surface, but like all Quakers kindly at the bottom."
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American Presidents: Life Portraits, Herbert Hoover - Information from the C-SPAN American Presidents site.
Encyclopedia Americana: Herbert Hoover - Detailed biography includes links to related topics, fact file, and inaugural address.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site - Brief introduction, photograph, and printable travel guide to Hoover's Iowa birthplace.
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Herbert Hoover: Inaugural Address - Complete text of speech delivered Monday, March 4, 1929. Includes background information.
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