Herbert Hoover

BIRTH NAME
Herbert Clark Hoover

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Quaker

EDUCATION
Stanford University B.S. 1891

VITALS
5 ft 11.5 in / 187 lbs

CAREER
1895-98 Mining engineer, Sierra Nevada Mountains
1898-1908 Mining executive, Bewick, Moreing & Co., Western Australia & China
1908-14 Mining consultant & financier, Zinc Corporation, London
1914-17 Co-founder, Commission for Relief in Belgium, London
1917-19 Administrator, U.S. Food Administration
1919-21 Director, American Relief Administration
1919 Established Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford
1921-23 Secretary of Commerce (Harding)
1923-28 Secretary of Commerce (Coolidge)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 6, 1928
Popular: Hoover 21,437,277 (58%) Al Smith 15,007,698 (41%)
Electoral: Hoover 444 Smith 87

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Curtis (1929-33)

ADMINISTRATION
New York Stock Exchange crashes, Great Depression begins (1929); Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Charles Evans Hughes (Chief), Owen Roberts, Benjamin Cardozo

FIRST LADY
Lou Henry (1929-33)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1933-64 Author and speaker
1947 Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government

“Words without action are the assassins of idealism.”
Statement to the New York Tribune, April 29, 1920

Portrait of Herbert Hoover by Elmer Wesley Greene, 1956.