Many people know Herbert Hoover as the man who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929, which led to Great Depression. He was the 31st president and served from 1929-1933. Hoover was born August 10, 1874 in West Branch Iowa. He married his college sweetheart, Lou Henry whom he had two children with, Herbert Clark and Allan Henry. Hoover was a Quaker, or a member of a religious movement. Hoover was the son of a blacksmith. His parents died when he was very young. He became an orphan, and went to live with his uncle in Oregon when he was ten. He went to college at Stanford University and got a degree in geology. After he received his degree he went to work in Australia at a mining company. Later in life Hoover received the cabinet position of Secretary of Commerce. Hoover coordinated different public works all over the country. One was the Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. The River is now called the Hoover Dam after him. In World War I Hoover helped evacuate 120,000 Americans all through Europe. He lead many humanitarian efforts. He also took on the job of feeding refugees in the war. He also …show more content…
His conservative values kept him from helping America in our time of need. He did lower taxes and construct public work projects, but that didn’t help anything and it all failed. McElvaine says,"The President therefore devoted much of his energies in 1931 and 1932 to the goal of a balanced budget, which was hopeless under the circumstances. Yet, as Hoover himself had recognized in less frantic times, cutting spending and raising taxes diminished purchasing and made the situation worse". He firmly resisted to assist the American people. He believed that people should be independent and work their way out of poverty, and that everything should not be handed to them. Many of the citizens of America saw how as callous and and heartless. Hoover lost the trust of the American people, and was not reelected to a second