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Herbert Hoover
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| Order: | 31st President |
| Term of Office: | March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933 |
| Predecessor: | Calvin Coolidge |
| Successor: | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Date of Birth | Monday, August 10, 1874 |
| Place of Birth: | West Branch, Iowa |
| Date of Death: | Tuesday, October 20, 1964 |
| Place of Death: | New York City. New York |
| First Lady: | Lou Henry HooverLou Henry Hoover ( March 29, 1874 January 7, 1944) was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States. Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it long experience as wife of a man eminent in p |
| Profession: | engineer |
| Political PartyThe United States has what is for all practical purposes a two-party system, with the two largest political parties dividing a great majority of the vote between themselves in most elections. This is partly a consequence of the first-past-the-post electio: | Republican |
| Vice PresidentThe Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new Presi: | Charles CurtisCharles Curtis ( January 25, 1860 February 8, 1936) was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas and the 31st Vice President of the United States. Curtis was of American Indian ancestry. His mother was Kaw. Charles spent part of his early life on a Kaw |
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Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st ( 1929- 1933) President of the United States.
1 Family background
Hoover was born into a Quaker family in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River. His parents were Jesse Hoover and Hulda Minthorn. His father died in 1880, and his mother in 1884. After his parents' deaths, Hoover lived in Newberg, Oregon.
In the summer of 1885 eleven-year-old "Bert" Hoover boarded a Union Pacific train headed west to Oregon. Sewn into his clothes were two dimes; he also carried a hamper of his Aunt Hannah's homemade delicacies. Waiting for him on the other end of the continent was his Uncle John Minthorn, a doctor and school superintendent whom Hoover recalled as "a severe man on the surface, but like all Quakers kindly at the bottom."
Hoover's six years in Oregon taught him self-reliance. "My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere." As an office boy in his uncle's Oregon Land Company he mastered bookkeeping and typing, while attending business school in the evening. Thanks to a local schoolteacher, Miss Jane Gray, the boy's eyes were opened to the novels of Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. David Copperfield, the story of another orphan cast into the world to live by his wits, would remain a lifelong favorite.
