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Herbert Clark Hoover's Biography ( 1874-1964 )
Herbert Hoover was born August 10, 1874, West Branch, Iowa, U.S. and died October 20, 1964, New York, New York. He was the 31st president of the United States (1929-33). 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. Hoover was the son of Jesse and Hulda Hoover. Jesse, his father, was a blacksmith and farm-implement. He was most certaintly a hardworker. Hulda, his mother, was an extremely pious women who eventually adapted Quakerism. Herbert Hoover, when he was young, had enjoyed an almost idylic childhood. But then, a tragedy happened at the age of six when his father died from heart disease. Then, about three years later, his mother had died of pneumonia. Hoover was then an oprhan who had left Iowa for oregon to grow up in his new home with John and Laura Minthom. Which was his maternal uncle and aunt. The tradgedy of young Herberts early childhood left an incredible mark which led to self-reliance, industriousness, and moral concern for the needy, abandoned, and downtrodden that would characterize him for the rest of his life. Hoover graduated with a degree in geology and became a mining enginner. He worked on a wide variety of projects throughout four continents and displayed exceptional business acumen. Withing two decades of leaving Stanford, he had amassed a personal net worth of about four million$$. When caught in China during the Boxer Rebellian (1900s), Hoover had displayed his gift for humanitarian rescue by orghanizing relief for trapped foreigners. He had drew on his China experience in the time of 1914, when he helped Americans that were stranded in Europe at the outbreak of World War 1. Continuing on for the next three years or so, Hoover headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Which he oversaw what he called "the greatest charity the world has ever seen". Hoover was recognized as the "Great Engineer". | |