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	Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury was Andrew Mellon, a holdover from the Coolidge administration.
		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).
		The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, built in 1919 in Palo Alto, California, is now the official residence of the President of Stanford University, and a National Historic Landmark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herbert_Hoover (5149 words)

	LOU HENRY HOOVER - A Biographical Sketch
		Lou organized a California branch of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and she raised financing and backing for one of the first food ships to be sent to Belgium from California.
		Lou Hoover also was a strong advocate of physical fitness for girls and women, and she had a great interest in their health and welfare.
		Lou Henry Hoover was an independent spirit who received from her family a love of nature and adventure, a sense of self reliance, and the ability to value courage.
	www.hoover.archives.gov /education/louhenrybio.html (4689 words)

	LOU HENRY HOOVER: UNSUNG HEROINE, PART I
		Lou was born in 1874, the same year as her husband Herbert, in a small Iowa town less than 100 miles from Herbert's.
		Lou's mother was often ill, and her only sibling was a sister eight years her junior.
		Lou Hoover's trips into the interior of the country were quickly ended, and in June of 1900, Herbert called in all his workers.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/36702 (537 words)

	Hoover Tower: Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hoover was chosen to be secretary of commerce during the Harding and Coolidge administrations; in 1928 he was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate and then elected the thirty-first president of the United States.
		Lou Henry Hoover was born in Waterloo, Iowa.
		Lou Henry Hoover was undaunted by the difficult existence in the China of 1900.
	www-hoover.stanford.edu /hila/towerrooms.htm (1234 words)

	Waterloo Celebrates 150 Years
		When Lou Henry was born to Charles and Florence Weed Henry on March 29, 1874, they could hardly have imagined the kind of life their daughter would lead, the places she would visit and the people she would meet.
		Lou first attended the Holland Elementary School, located at the corner of East Fourth and Mulberry streets, and later attended the Central school located on Washington St. She was known to be quite the tomboy.
		In 1928, Lou’s husband, Herbert, was elected President of the United States, and when he was sworn in as the thirty-first president in 1929, Lou Henry Hoover, formerly of Waterloo, IA became the First Lady of the United States.
	www.wplwloo.lib.ia.us /History/WlooBios/LouHenryHoover.html (780 words)

	Nancy Beck Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thus, while Hoover was never a leader of the early twentieth century feminist movement, her life nonetheless reflected the changed circumstances for American women from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.
		Lou Henry Hoover's papers, housed in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, were the most valuable research source.
		Hoover is the first first lady for whom the archival record spans from birth to death.
	www.mckendree.edu /NewsReleases/04-05/91_Hoover_Book.html (748 words)

	GALLERY EIGHT: An Uncommon Woman
		Throughout her life, Lou was very much her husband's partner in everything he did, whether pursuing the history of mining, caring for Americans stranded in Europe by World War I, feeding desperate Belgium, or convincing her countrymen to voluntarily reduce their food consumption during the war in order to aid the Allies.
		Lou was a gifted linguist, artist, and photographer, who traded in her box Brownie for an 8 mm motion picture camera used to record family activities and her work with the Girl Scouts.
		Hoover was an amateur architect largely responsible for the house on San Juan Hill at Palo Alto and the presidential fishing camp built in 1929 along the Rapidan River.
	hoover.archives.gov /exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery08/gallery08.html (1814 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lou Henry Hoover's life was marked by her devotion to her husband and family, a deeply felt commitment to civic activism, and a love of the outdoors.
		Lou helped care for the wounded and injured as she and Herbert were barricaded in a western settlement in the city of Tientstin.
		Because Lou Henry Hoover was the wife of the President who failed to solve the Great Depression -- and because she preceded Eleanor Roosevelt, the woman who remade the position of First Lady -- her contemporaries, as well as historians, have tended to disparage or overlook her achievements.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/herberthoover/firstlady (1338 words)

	lou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lou Henry Hoover was born on March 29, 1874, on a cold, blustery day in Waterloo, Iowa.
		Lou enrolled in the State Normal School in Los Angeles and was elected president of her class.
		Lou was worried about her husband and began to look for some land to build a weekend retreat.
	www.iowa-city.k12.ia.us /hoover/lou.html (1573 words)

	Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, Santa Clara County, California -- National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, a National Historic Landmark, is a large, rambling International style house, resembling "blocks piled up." It was designed by Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States.
		Lou Henry, also born in Iowa in 1874, had moved to Monterey, California, with her family in 1884.
		Angering the Hoovers, who felt that it was an inopportune time in the waning months of a terrible conflict to announce the construction of a large home, Mulgardt was dismissed.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/santaclara/hoo.htm (661 words)

	Hoover, Lou Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lou's father, Charles Henry, was a banker in Waterloo, Iowa where his daughter was born in 1874.
		Hoover traveled the world with her husband on steamers, tugboats, trains, cars, buggies, and horses, she was Herbert's helpmate.
		Lou Henry Hoover was in a quiet way a woman before her time.
	www.classbrain.com /artbiographies/publish/lou_henry_hoover.shtml (896 words)

	The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, West Branch, Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hoover, the son of a Quaker flsmith named Jesse and his wife, Hulda, was born at West Branch and orphaned at 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.hooverassociation.org /hooverbio.html (609 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover
		Young draws on the extensive collection of Lou Hoover’s personal papers to show that she was not only an important First Lady but also a key transitional figure between nineteenth- and twentieth-century views on womanhood.
		Lou Hoover was a multifaceted woman: a college graduate, a lover of the outdoors, a supporter of Girl Scouting, and a person engaged in social activism who endorsed political involvement for women and created a program to fight the Depression.
		“Lou Henry Hoover was a paradoxical public figure: a self-effacing activist, an unconventional conservative, an innovator wrongly remembered as a standpatter.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /youlou.html (491 words)

	knitty.com
		Hoover's, she was knitting a baby blanket on large needles.
		Lou Henry Hoover was a strong proponent of girls' involvement in athletics and outdoor activities.
		Hoover used for her blanket, but it was likely pure wool in worsted/heavy worsted weight.
	www.knitty.com /ISSUEfall03/PATThoover.html (1989 words)

	LOU HENRY HOOVER: UNSUNG HEROINE, PART II
		Hoover's ideas." Although she had a reputation for liking to talk (the servants called it "broadcasting"), she relied on hand signals during parties and official functions to communicate with employees.
		Lou Hoover had a strong dislike of publicizing her personal life, and that kept her more appealing side private from most Americans.
		Lou's desire to protect the privacy of the people she was helping led to the decision to keep her papers and records private for forty years after her death.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/36704 (609 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover Panel
		Hoover was expected to be hostess and housekeeper for her husband.
		Lou Hoover was the first presidential spouse to speak on the radio, and the first to give regular interviews.
		Mayo said she welcomes renewed attention to Lou Hoover because she was innovative and independent at a time when women had only recently obtained the right to vote.
	www.nmwh.org /news/hooverpanel.htm (486 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Hoovers entertained elegantly, using their own private funds for social events while the country suffered worsening economic depression.
		The Lou Henry Hoover House in Palo Alto's foothills is now the official residence of the President of Stanford University.
		Lou Henry Hoover as originally buried in Palo Alto, California, after her death from a heart attack, but upon her husband's death in 1954, she was re-interred in West Branch, Iowa.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Lou_Henry_Hoover.html (671 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lou Henry Hoover was born in Waterloo, Iowa on March 29, 1874.
		Lou was the first woman to graduate from Stanford with a geology major.
		Lou and Herbert were married on February 10, 1899 and had 2 sons, Herbert Jr.
	www2.lhric.org /POCANTICO/womenenc/hoover.htm (239 words)

	Lou Hoover, First Lady
		Lou Henry was born on March 29, 1874 in Waterloo, Iowa.
		Lou Henry was the first woman to graduate from Stanford with a degree in geology.
		Lou had a sudden heart attack on January 7, 1944 and died.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/LHoover.html (224 words)

	H-Net Review: Nancy Beck Young on An Independent Woman: The Life of Lou Henry Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While the 1929-1933 period saw Hoover scale back the intensity of her public activity, it nonetheless proved to be a turning point within her public and private life.
		Furthermore, the part of the text describing Hoover from her birth through 1928 lacks sufficient depth for the reader to understand the later impact of the depression on her life.
		For First Ladies previous to Lou Henry Hoover, interested biographers and scholars have faced a legitimate archival challenge in that insufficient and incomplete materials have been preserved for research with fragmentary or no original records to document the private lives of presidential spouses and only sparse records for their public activities.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156051016213893 (1007 words)

	American Women Special Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lou Henry Hoover, Herbert Hoover’s wife, accomplished a great deal in her relatively short life.
		Nancy Beck Young, author of Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady is Professor of History at McKendree College and a former Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
		Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady will take place on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. in the Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW in Washington, DC.
	www.nmwh.org /news/louhenryhoover.htm (523 words)

	Hoover: Museum Guide 8
		Born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1874, the future Lou Henry Hoover learned to love theoutdoors from her banker father.
		Lou was a gifted linguist, artist, and photographer, who traded in her box Brownie for an 8mm motion picture camera used to record family activities and her work with the Girl Scouts.
		It was Lou who left explicit instructions that the President's Cabin incorporate and not destroy a majestic old hemlock tree - Lou who refused to burn live wood, coal, or oil - Lou whose scruples made for chilly nights but a warm conscience.
	www.ibiblio.org /lia/president/HooverLibrary/museum/Museum-Guide8.html (1694 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover Building to shut down for asbestos removal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		STANFORD -- While monitoring has shown no health hazard, the first and second floors of the Lou Henry Hoover Building will be shut down within the next month so that materials containing asbestos can be removed.
		In a memo to Hoover employees, Hoover Director John Raisian said that sampling on the first and second floors of the building indicates that the air is well below the recognized health hazard levels for airborne asbestos.
		Stanford Operations and Maintenance workers found the materials containing asbestos in the ductwork in the course of conducting routine repair work Oct. 2 on the second floor air-handling system of the Lou Henry Hoover Building, one of three buildings that make up the Hoover Institution complex.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/931012Arc3110.html (354 words)

	CedarNet - Portal to the Cedar Valley
		It was there, as a freshman, that she met Herbert Hoover, who was then a senior.
		Lou Henry Hoover played an active part in her husband's career as a mining engineer, humanitarian, secretary of commerce and president.
		She died in 1944, and is buried next to her husband on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa.
	www.cedarnet.org /tour/sites/110-louhenryhoover.html (189 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lou Henry Hoover
		MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lou Henry Hoover
		In 1899 Lou Henry, the first woman geology graduate from Stanford University in California, married Herbert Hoover.
		Iowa-born Henry was an intelligent woman who spoke several languages.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461520886/Lou_Henry_Hoover.html (35 words)

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		Both A. Clark and Birge Clark served as advising architects to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover for their house on the Stanford campus.
		Clark regarding planning and construction of the Lou Henry Hoover house; and sketches and specifications for the house.
		Part of the correspondence consists of copied materials from the Lou Henry Hoover papers in the Herbert Hoover Library (West Branch, Iowa), some of which concern Louis Mullgardt's plans for a house.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/sc0076b.xml (344 words)

	The First Ladies of the United States - Lou Henry Hoover
		Then her father, Charles D. Henry, decided that the climate of southern California would favor the health of his wife, Florence.
		He took his daughter on camping trips in the hills--her greatest pleasures in her early teens.
		Hoover paid with her own money the cost of reproducing furniture owned by Monroe for a period sitting room in the White House.
	www.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/lh31.html (528 words)

	The Weekly Standard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now the activist Lou Hoover receives her due from Nancy Beck Young, who contends that Hoover blazed the trails that ER would follow and extend.
		Lou Hoover "revolutionized" the office of first lady, Young says, expanding the traditional role of hostess to include her own political agenda.
		But her father, Charles Henry, taught her to fish and to ride bareback, unladylike diversions by the standards of the day.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Check.asp?idArticle=5910&r=qlhcj (384 words)

	CDC - Office of Women's Health - National Women's Health Week - First Ladies: Life and Health - Lou Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in 1874 in Iowa, Lou Henry grew to become a prominent figure in society.
		She also volunteered to work in the local hospital, where she distributed milk to the children and wounded.
		Hoover died in 1944 from an acute heart attack.
	www.cdc.gov /od/spotlight/nwhw/firstlady/hoover.htm (543 words)

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