Term: 31st President of the United States (1929-1933)
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Born: August 10, 1874, West Branch, Iowa
Nickname: None
Education: Stanford University (graduated 1895)
Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
Marriage: February 10, 1899, to Lou Henry (1875-1944)
Children: Herbert Clark (1903-1969), Allan Henry (1907-1993)
Career: Engineer
Political Party: Republican
Writings:The Challenge of Liberty (1934), America’s First Crusade (1942), Memoirs (3 vols., 1951-52), The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (1958)
Died: October 20, 1964, New York City, New York
Buried: West Branch, Iowa
Herbert Hoover Trivia:
Graduated Stanford University (1895). Secretary of Commerce under Harding, Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge. The New York Stock Market crashed on October 29, 1929, marking the beginning of a severe economic depression that dominated the Hoover presidency. The School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University in 1964, Herbert Hoover and Thomas Edison were named the two greatest engineers in U. S. History. He was the youngest member of Stanford University's first graduating class. During their first three years in the White House, the Hoovers dined alone only three times, each time on their wedding anniversary. Hoover was the first president to donate his salary to charity. One of the most honored presidents, Hoover received 84 honourary degrees, 78 medals and awards, and the keys to dozens of cities
