PRESIDENT+HERBERT+HOOVER

=PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER author Amber A=

We all know George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy, but what about those presidents that are unpopular. Take Herbert Clark Hoover for instance. He was our thirty first president and he served as president from 1929-1933Herbert Hoover: Encylopedia of Presidents page 107. During election he ran as a Republican and ran against Alfred Smith. With Charles Curtis by his side as his vice president, Hoover received four hundred forty-four electoral votes in the election of 1928ssociatedcontent.com. Herbert Hoover had a rough childhood, recieved an education, and accomplished many things throughout his life. Herbert Hoover was born August 10, 1874 in West Branch Iowa. He lived in a small three-room house with his parents and two siblings. Hoover received the nickname "Bertie" from his parents, Jesse and Hulda Minthorn Hoover. He enjoyed fishing, hiking, and reading. Hoover and his friends fished, using "willow poles with a butcher-string line and hooks ten for a dime". Hoover's parents both died by the time he was ten. He was taken in by his Uncle Allen and Aunt Millie HooverHerbert Hoover: Encyclopedia of Presidents pages 7-10. Hoover died at the age of 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964 while writing a bookwhitehouse.gov. Hoover attended a local school as a youth. Although he never did graduate high school, Hoover went to Stanford University in 1891, the first year the college opened. He started off with mechanical engineering as his major and then one year in he changed his major to geology. During his college years, Hoover had several part time jobs which included a clerk, delivering newspapers, and managing special lectures and concerts in order to pay for his room and board. He was the "youngest member of Stanford University's first graduating class". Hoover graduated with a degree in geology. After college Hoover worked as a mining engineer from 1896-1914 in China, Australia, and Londonabout.com. When people think of Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression is the first thing that comes to mind. Although, Hoover kept the United States in the Great Depression until World War l, he did do a lot for this country. For starters, he expanded civil service protection. He also doubled the number of veteran hospital facilities and wrote a Children's Charter that "advocated" protection of every child regardless of race and genderspiritus-temporis.com. Hoover's "administration is noted" for the signing of the London Naval Treaty. Even with all these accomplishments, on October 29, 1929, the stock market "collapse triggered" a depression, known as the Great Depression, which did not fully end until World War ll, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was presidentdiscoverer.prod.sirs.com. The United States has experienced economic depressions before, however no depression caused as much suffering or has lasted as long. During the Great Depression unemployment grew to 25% by 1933. Thousands of people lost their homes, and millions went hungry. The Great Depression did not just affect the United States, it also affected millions of people around the world. Due to the Great Depression and Hoover's acts trying to help, that usually "backfired", led to him being very unpopular, which soon led to him losing the presidential election of 1932__Creating America__pages 729-733. Herbert Hoover once said "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends"basicquotations.com. This was interesting because there's always a cause to your effect and it makes out a chain of events. Another famous quote Hoover said was, " Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt."basicquotations.com When you think about it we will be the one's to have to pay off our ancestors debt and pay off our own. " Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die." This means that the young people are the one's who are doing all the work, dying and fighting for their country while the older people are the ones who are putting us at war and are making all these wars happen. Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi. He also had a comet and fifty-three schools named after him. On the other hand he was the first president to have a telephone on his desk in the Oval Office. Hoover lived for thirty-one years, 231 days after leaving officehooverassociation.com.