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	Herbert Hoover - MSN Encarta
		Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and humanitarian administrator...
		In fact Hoover was the first president to use the federal government to fight the effects of a depression, even though he was not successful, which helped prepare the country for the government intervention of the New Deal policies of President Franklin Roosevelt when he succeeded Hoover in 1933.
		Herbert Clark Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570424/Herbert_Hoover.html (721 words)

	President HERBERT HOOVER
		Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa.
		Hoover undertook the regulation of the nations airwaves, and established the Aeronautics Board to encourage the development of commercial aviation.
		Hoover, who had been a great American success story until his Presidency, was elected on his promise of continued prosperity for America.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/hoover.html (486 words)

	Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoover often traveled to outlying mines by camel, which he called "even a less successful creation than a horse." On one of his trips, he made a detailed inspection of a new mine called the "Sons of Gwalia," which he recommended that his company buy.
		Herbert traveled to China by way of the United States, and on February 10, 1899, he and Lou Henry were married in the sitting room of her parents' home in Monterey, California.
		Hoover was honored with a state funeral, and it was America's third in a span of 12 months (The others were for John F. Kennedy and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herbert_Hoover (5437 words)

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		Hoover was born into a Quaker family in an Iowa village, but after his parents' deaths lived in Newberg, Oregon.
		Since 1930, the Hoover administration had seldom let a month go by without public announcements that the worst of the economic downturn was over (although the first was on December 3, 1929).
		Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died from intestinal cancer at the age of 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/h/he/herbert_hoover.html (772 words)

	BBC - History - Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hoover won the nomination comfortably, declaring in his acceptance speech that 'We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.' Hoover comfortably defeated Democrat Al Smith of New York, the first Catholic presidential candidate, by 58% to 41% in the popular vote.
		Hoover was unprepared for the extent of the economy's collapse but felt that the natural cycles of business would lead to an upturn in the economy's fortunes.
		Hoover retired from active politics but was critical of the direction of Roosevelt's New Deal policies that he termed 'fascistic' for the increases in federal power that they ushered in.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/hoover_herbert.shtml (658 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Herbert Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hoover was nominated for a second term but was defeated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1932 election.
		Hoover sent U.S. Army forces, led by General Douglas MacArthur and aided by junior officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, to remove the remaining veterans, and in the ensuing clash hundreds were injured and several were killed.
		Hoover was badly defeated in the U.S. presidential election, 1932.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Herbert_Hoover (5732 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Herbert Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) Louise Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 â€“; January 7, 1944) was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States.
		Hoover was asked to undertake an unprecedented relief effort for the tiny kingdom dependent on imports for 80 percent of its food.
		The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, built in 1919 in Palo Alto, is now the official residence of the President of Stanford University, and a National Historic Landmark.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Herbert_Hoover (914 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Herbert Clark Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 1874.
		Although the bill was not what he wanted, Hoover signed it on June 17, 1930, justifying his act on the ground that the flexible provision, permitting him to change rates within a compass of 50% on the advice of the tariff commission, would enable him to remedy injustices in the law.
		Hoover believed that aid to the hungry and the deserving unemployed should come from local governments in the states and counties, not from the federal government.
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	Herbert_Hoover
		Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public service.
		Hoover's public reputation was enormous as a result of his activities in these offices, and some persons looked upon him as a presidential candidate in 1920.
		Hoover expressed the belief that ways had been found to eliminate the scourges of poverty and that America was entering a future of peace and ever-increasing economic prosperity.
	www.studyworld.com /Herbert_Hoover.htm (1174 words)

	Herbert Hoover - Conservapedia
		Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America following Calvin Coolidge and preceding Franklin Roosevelt and was the United States Secretary of Commerce under President Calvin Coolidge, his predecessor.
		Hoover was requested, by the neutral country of Belgium, to arrange its food supply through World War I.
		Hoover's success in fighting the economic disaster that was upon the US was not evident during his presidency, and that cost him his popularity as well as re-election in the 1932 Presidential Election.
	www.conservapedia.com /Herbert_Hoover (418 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hoover, the son of a Quaker flsmith named Jesse and his wife, Hulda, was born at West Branch and orphaned by age 10.
		Hoover took the oath of office in March 1929, when the nation was prospering, but the stock market crashed the following October, and he was blamed as the economy plummeted and unemployment soared.
		Hoover, who was the first president born west of the Mississippi River, and his first lady are buried at West Branch.
	www.desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/hoover.html (330 words)

	The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
		Hoover was born on August 10 in West Branch, Iowa.
		Hoover was chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (known as 1st Hoover Commission) for President Truman.
		Herbert Hoover died in New York City at the age of 90.
	hoover.nara.gov /education/chronology.html (602 words)

	Herbert Hoover
		Herbert Hoover was a self-made man, the savior of Belgium, the Great Engineer; there was nothing that he could not do and nothing that America could not achieve under his leadership.
		Hoover’s diminishing popularity was the subject of this editorial; although the Times editorial staff generally supported Hoover (and its publisher, Adolph Ochs, was a good friend of his), it argued that his failure to deliver on campaign promises of prosperity was hurting his support.
		Hoover, however, was aghast at the “untold amount of suffering” in 1873 “which might have been prevented,” and he resolved to “use the powers of government to cushion the situation” (Ibid 31) — yet he felt that the “best contribution of government” was the “encouragement of.
	www.stevesachs.com /papers/paper_hoover.html (9065 words)

	Herbert Hoover
		Herbert Hoover, the son of a Quaker, was born in West Branch, Iowa, on 10th August, 1874.
		Hoover worked on industrial projects in several countries and on the outbreak of the First World War was in London.
		Hoover's unpopularity increased when on 28th July, Hoover gave orders for the camp to be cleared by troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhoover.htm (3321 words)

	Hoover Museum - Digital Archives
		Hoover didn't think that the Constitution was the proper place for the law, but once it was there it was the duty of the president to enforce the Constitution.
		Hoover was elected by one of the biggest majorities in the history of the Republican party.
		Hoover saw the relief coming from the state and local municipalities, which would rely on volunteers, but a few months later people were clamoring for the President to offer direct federal aid to the people.
	www.ecommcode.com /hoover/hooveronline/hoover_bio/pres.htm (1585 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Herbert Hoover
		Hoover was asked to undertake an unprecedented relief effort for the tiny kingdom dependent on imports for 80 percent of its food.
		Hoover became the scapegoat for the Depression, and shanty towns of unemployed rising across the country became known as Hoovervilles.
		Hoover used military force to remove the campers from the capitol and was criticised as this was a possible violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
	www.usa-presidents.info /hoover.htm (1727 words)

	The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
		Herbert Junior was born in London in 1903, and within 5 weeks he was packed in a basket as his family set off on a world journey.
		Hoover could not convince the allied powers that food should be provided for Germany, even with the sound argument that stunted bodies and deformed minds in the next generation would be a poor foundation on which to rebuild civilization.
		Hoover and Smith were in accord on many issues of the 1928 campaign: reforms in child welfare, business practice, and the prison system; the better organization of Federal Government, and the development of water resources and oil conservation.
	hoover.archives.gov /education/hooverbio.html (6087 words)

	No. 136: Herbert Hoover
		erbert Hoover's two great misfortunes were to be made president of the United States on the eve of the terrible 1929 depression, and then to run into the shrewdest political mind of the 20th century in his bid for reelection.
		Hoover was born in Iowa in 1874 and raised as a Quaker.
		Hoover quickly assessed the extent of the need and set the very basis of the Marshall Plan, which saved Europe from starvation a second time.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi136.htm (493 words)

	A.P.E. - Herbert Hoover
		Herbert Hoover was born in Iowa, but grew up in Oregon.
		Hoover's political career began as the head of the Food Administration during World War I. Both during and after the war, he helped to feed both Americans and war-stricken Europe.
		Hoover still felt strongly about making sure everyone had enough to eat, but his opponents blamed him for the depression, causing him to lose the next election.
	library.thinkquest.org /11492/cgi-bin/pres.cgi/hoover_herbert (175 words)

	American President
		Hoover came into the presidency as one of the foremost proponents of public-private cooperation -- what was termed “volunterism” -- to maintain a high-growth economy.
		Hoover did not reject government regulation out of hand, however; in fact, he supported regulating industries such as radio broadcasting and aviation that he believed served the public good.
		Hoover ran for reelection in 1932, anxious to prove that his policies could still ameliorate the economic crisis.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/herberthoover (1105 words)

	Herbert Hoover
		Hoover served as secretary of commerce for seven years, under presidents Harding and Coolidge, and became the Republican presidential nominee in the Election of 1928.
		Hoover was criticized for his refusal to authorize large-scale relief programs that might have alleviated the nation's suffering and hunger, his unwillingness to use a significant amount of federal dollars to stimulate the nation's economy, and his failure to recognize the all-encompassing nature of the Great Depression.
		Hoover was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Election of 1932.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1580.html (1452 words)

	Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		Herbert Hoover exemplified the ideal of individualism and the self-made man. His expertise as a mining engineer made him a millionaire by age 40.
		The papers of President Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover are among those housed in the library archives.
		Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover are buried on a hillside overlooking the president's birthplace.
	www.nps.gov /heho (282 words)

	Herbert Hoover
		Herbert Hoover seemed to be the ultimate problem-solver.
		As a result, Hoover's once lustrous reputation dimmed substantially, and he was defeated by a crushing margin in his bid for reelection in 1932.
		But Hoover put off sitting for it, and by the time he did, the magazine had lost interest in running the picture.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/travpres/hoovers.htm (195 words)

	Explore DC: Herbert Hoover
		Herbert Hoover took office in 1929 amid high hopes for the country and his administration.
		In Finland, the word "hoover" was used to mean "to help." But by his last years as president, his name became identified with one of the worst aspects of the Depression: cardboard shelters for the homeless called Hoovervilles.
		Behind the scenes, Hoover's wife handed out food and blankets to the marchers and their families- a paradox that illustrates the gap between the president's public image and reality.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=114 (543 words)

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