Herbert Clark Hoover

Birth	10 AUG 1874
Education	1895
Org.	1920		American Institute of Mining Engineers, President
Occup	1921-1928		USA Secretary of Commerce
Election	1928		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1929-1933
Election	1932		USA Presidential Election
Election	1940		USA Presidential Election
Death	20 OCT 1964
Grave

Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, of a very poor Quaker family. When he was a boy his mother died and there is a scene of the family gathered around the bedside in prayer. His father could not take care of the children, so they were "farmed out" to other members of the family. Hoover went to live with an uncle in Oregon. When he grew up he went to Stanford University. There he worked his way through school. He carried newspapers, mowed lawns, waited on tables. He would do anything that was honorable. He graduated as a mining engineer and, as the speakers at commencement exercises always say, went out into the world. In his case it was literally so. He went to Australia, New Zealand, China, and Europe. He was looking for minerals. I don't... Read More