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	Lou Henry Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lou became a fine horsewoman; she hunted, and preserved specimens with the skill of a taxidermist; she developed an enthusiasm for rocks, minerals, and mining.
		Lou and her husband collaborated on a translation from the Latin of a classic 16th century treatise on mining, Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica.
		Lou Henry Hoover was originally buried in Palo Alto, California, after her death from a heart attack, but upon her husband's death in 1964, she was re-interred in West Branch, Iowa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lou_Hoover (652 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Hoovers moved into the (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) White House in 1929, and the (The wife of a chief executive) First Lady welcomed visitors with poise and dignity throughout the administration.
		Hoover paid with her own money the cost of reproducing furniture owned by (5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)) James Monroe for a period sitting room in the White House.
		Lou Henry Hoover was originally buried in Palo Alto, California, after her death from a (A sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function) heart attack, but upon her husband's death in 1964, she was re-interred in (Click link for more info and facts about West Branch, Iowa) West Branch, Iowa.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/lou_henry_hoover.htm (817 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
		Lou Hoover quickly mastered eight languages in their travels; later, she and the President would often speak Mandarin when they wanted to avoid being overheard by the White House staff.
		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.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/herberthoover (1105 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) was the wife of Herbert Hoover, who served as president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
		Hoover, whose maiden name was Lou Henry, was born in Waterloo, Iowa, on March 29, 1874.
		After finishing high school, Lou Hoover planned to be a teacher, and she enrolled at Los Angeles Normal School to study education.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/presidents/html/hoover_lou.htm (362 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Hoover was the daughter of a Waterloo banker.
		Hoover was active in the Girl Scouting movement for 27 years and twice served as the group's national president.
		Hoover became the mother of Allan and Herbert Jr.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/lhoover.html (297 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 (576 words)

	First Ladies: LOU HENRY HOOVER
		Lou Henry was a brilliant student at Stanford University.
		Lou Hoover was proud of the Girl Scout movement and served as national president of the organization.
		Lou Hoover was happy to become mistress of the White House and she set about planning extensive renovation, using the Hoovers' private funds (they were self-made millionaires.) She also began researching a complete history of the White House furnishings.
	www.multied.com /Bio/ladies/hoover.html (812 words)

	LOU HENRY HOOVER: UNSUNG HEROINE, PART II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 (634 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Hoover was based on their perception of Herbert Hoover, with his unsmiling square face and starched collars.
		Hoover produced a series of radio broadcasts, speaking on a variety of topics from her husbandâs policies, the Girl Scouts and the growing role of women in everyday life.
		Lou Hoover was bitter about her husbandâs defeat in the election of 1932, but she graciously showed Eleanor Roosevelt through the buildings.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=32 (1424 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)

	knitty.com
		Lou Henry Hoover was a strong proponent of girls' involvement in athletics and outdoor activities.
		Found in the Hoover files: A birth announcement for David Bruce Pearson born April 20, 1940, with a note attached, "[T]his must be the baby of Therina Guerard to whom you sent detailed instructions for the making of the baby blanket." In Mrs.
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lou enrolled in the State Normal School in Los Angeles and was elected president of her class.
		Although Lou had studied to be a teacher, she changed her mind after attending a lecture by a famous geologist, Professor J.C. Branner.
		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 Hoover
		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.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/lou_henry_hoover.html (691 words)

	Art by Lou Hoover: Landscape Artist: Originals Only, Affordable, Commissioned Artwork Available
		One of Lou’s favorite painting memories is of the day she painted “Storm in the Mountains” (image top right).
		Lou says, “the sun kissing one side of the mountain and the rain washing the other side is a gift I was able to get on canvas only because I was there to experience it myself’.
		Lou says, "Still life paintings tell stories." Sometimes Lou knows the tale, but usually she is asking for an answer.
	www.louhoover.com (350 words)

	Hoover Tower: Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	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)

	rapidan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1929 the Hoovers purchased some land in the Blue Ridge Mountains about 100 miles from Washington, D. C., where President Hoover and Lou could fish, hike and relax.
		Lou wanted to leave the area in its natural state as much as possible.
		Lou Hoover is greeting the children at the President's Mountain School.
	www.iowa-city.k12.ia.us /hoover/rapidan.html (447 words)

	knitty.com
		Hoover's, she was knitting a baby blanket on large needles.
		Even after their sons were born, the Hoovers continued exploring all corners of the globe while Herbert was employed by various mining and minerology concerns.
		Hoover recommends a single row of crochet around the outside edge of the blanket for a more finished look and longer-lasting blanket.
	knitty.com /ISSUEfall03/PATThoover.html (1989 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 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)

	Additional Reading (from Lou Hoover) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Hoover's reputation as a humanitarian—earned during and after World War I as he rescued millions of Europeans from starvation—faded from public consciousness when his administration proved unable to alleviate widespread joblessness, homelessness, and hunger in his own country during the early years of the Great Depression.
		With an adventurous spirit, a solid knowledge of geology, and a great capacity for languages, Lou Henry Hoover was an excellent companion to Herbert Hoover as he went on engineering assignments around the world during the early years of their marriage.
		When Lou Gerstner assumed the mantle of chief executive officer (CEO) at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in April 1993, he inherited what was called the toughest job in corporate America.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214684?tocId=214684 (824 words)

	No. 139: Hoover and Agricola
		In 1905 his wife Lou wrote to a Stanford Professor named Branner, who'd taught geology to both Hoovers.
		Lou and Herbert Hoover undertook the job together.
		Together, the Hoovers take us on a guided tour through the complete mining literature before Agricola and much of what followed.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi139.htm (458 words)

	Lou Henry Hoover Building to shut down for asbestos removal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Offices on the second floor of the building are occupied by Hoover scholars.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/93/931012Arc3110.html (354 words)

	American Women Special Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lou Henry Hoover, Herbert Hoover’s wife, accomplished a great deal in her relatively short life.
		Her passion and support for education were so far-reaching that even her husband was unaware of the extent of her involvement with education and schools until after her death.
		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)

	LOU HENRY HOOVER PAPERS
		Hoovers spent their honeymoon on a steamer enroute to China where he was to assume
		Hoover was appointed head of the U.S. Food Administration.
		Hoover was appointed Secretary of Commerce in 1921, the Hoovers,
	www.ecommcode2.com /hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/hooverl/lhhmain.htm (1737 words)

	Herbert Hoover -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		When United States voters elected Herbert Hoover 31st president in 1928, the country was enjoying an industrial and financial boom.
		They were appointed to find ways to reduce the number of federal government departments and increase their efficiency in the post-World War II and post-Korean War periods.
		Hoover Dam is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274935 (808 words)

	Passed House Resolution 0066
		Whereas, Mary Lou Hoover Conrad proved to be a tireless campaigner on behalf of her husband in his pursuit of public office, inspiring men, women, and children in all sections of Indiana and from all walks of life;
		Whereas, Mary Lou Hoover Conrad excelled first and foremost in being a mother to her four children, a grandmother to her thirteen grandchildren and an aunt to her nephew: Therefore,
		That the principal clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the family of Mary Lou Hoover Conrad.
	www.state.in.us /legislative/bills/2001/HRESP/HC0066.html (317 words)

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