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Herbert Clark Hoover
| Birth | 10 AUG 1874 | |||
| Educ. | 1895 |  | ||
| Org. | 1895 |  | ||
| Org. | 1920 | |  | |
| 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 | |||
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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
