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  1. 2 days ago · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.

  2. The Commission for Relief in Belgium(CRB, or simply Belgian Relief) was an international, predominantly American, organization that arranged for the supply of food to German-occupied Belgiumand northern Franceduring the First World War. Its leading figure was chairman, and future President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.

  3. Oct 7, 2024 · As historian Richard Hofstader aptly states, Hoover was a man who was “wed to ideas that had become stale and oppressive, a believer in the ability of capitalism to survive without governmental props, the last presidential spokesman of the hallowed doctrines of laissez‐faire liberalism” that had no place in a post-Rooseveltian society.

  4. Oct 6, 2024 · Herbert Hoover’s first foray into politics came during World War I when then president Woodrow Wilson appointed him US food administrator. By the time the war ended, Hoover was famed as a humanitarian. Let’s take a closer look at the 31st President of the United States

  5. Oct 8, 2024 · In the 1932 presidential election, Democratic New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt unseated incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide in both the popular vote and the...

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  7. 16 hours ago · Republican nominee Herbert Hoover had won in the 1928 presidential election against Democratic nominee Al Smith. Smith had lost the support of the Solid South during the campaign likely due to anti-Catholic sentiment. Hoover had won in a landslide with him winning forty of the forty-eight states giving him 444 electoral votes against Smith's 87.

  8. 16 hours ago · The late 1920s were a time of great optimism in the United States, and few in public life expressed this optimism more clearly than Herbert Hoover. Even before becoming president in 1928, Hoover was one of the most respected men in the country, if not the world.

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