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Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) —
also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great
Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in West Branch, Cedar
County, Iowa, August
10, 1874.
Son of Jesse Clark Hoover (1847-1880) and Hulda Randall (Minthorn)
Hoover (1848-1883).
Republican. Mining engineer;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-28; President
of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1960.
Quaker.
Swiss
and Dutch
ancestry.
Inducted into the National Mining Hall of
Fame, Leadville, Colorado.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers Hotel, New
York, New
York County, N.Y., October
20, 1964 (age 90 years, 71
days).
Interment at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Clark Hoover (1847-1880) and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover
(1848-1883); distant cousin of Charles
Lewis Hoover; married, February
10, 1899, to Lou Henry (1874-1944); father of Herbert
Clark Hoover, Jr.. See Hoover
family of California. |
| |  | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss |
| |  | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| |  | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| |  | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| |  | Books about Herbert Hoover: Martin L.
Fausold, The
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover — Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert
Hoover : Forgotten Progressive — George H. Nash, Life
of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 —
George H. Nash, The
Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies,
1917-1918 — David Holford, Herbert
Hoover (for young readers) |
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