From successful businessman to mining entrepreneur Herbert Hoover has accomplished many things including becoming the 31st president of the United States of America. Herbert Hoover has left his mark on this world through his work with the Commission for Relief Belgium (CRB). Accessing Herbert Hoover from building his wealth, service to country, and surviving the depression.
Born into a Quaker family in a little town in west Branch Iowa, Herbert Hoover came from nothing. (Herbert Hoover). His father Jesse Clark Hoover was a blacksmith and his mother Hulda Minthorn Hoover was a teacher. (Herbert Hoover). He was the second of three children and first president of the United States of America born west of the Mississippi. (Herbert Hoover). At the age of nine, Herbert hoover was orphaned and was primarily raised by his uncle located in Oregon. (Herbert Hoover). He attended Quaker schools
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(Herbert Hoover). After 4 long years of studying geology he launched a career as an engineer. (Herbert hoover) He traveled all over the world looking for lucrative mining deposits and then established businesses to get those minerals out of the ground. (Herbert Hoover). Herbert Hoover’s hard work came to pay off as he climbed the ranks of society. (Herbert Hoover). Hoover went home to marry his college sweetheart named Lou Henry. They had two children. (Herbert hoover). His work with mining had made him a very prestigious man to which he fit in quite well. Little did Herbert Hoover know the devastation that would rock his country in the future. Herbert Hoover became to be known as the great humanitarian by most because of his work in food distribution. He helped a lot of people including 120,000 Europeans. When World War 1 initiated in 1917 President Woodrow Wilson called for Herbert