Herbert Hoover?

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ok my bother wanted to know who is Herbert Hoover!. i googled it in for him but he said he did not want to read all of the info!. and i could not read it for him caz i have my work to do!. So if someone can maybe tell some info!. on Herbert Hoover for my bother !. it would be helpful!. Thank YOu :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and author!. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization"!. In the presidential election of 1928 Hoover easily won the Republican nomination!. The nation was prosperous and optimistic, leading to a landslide for Hoover over the Democrat Al Smith, whom many voters distrusted on account of his Roman Catholicism!. Hoover deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement (a major component of the Progressive Era), arguing that a technical solution existed for every social and economic problem!. That position was challenged by the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the first year of his presidency!. He tried to combat the Depression with volunteer efforts and government action, none of which produced economic recovery during his term!. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward spiral into deep Depression, compounded by popular opposition to prohibition!. Other electoral liabilities were Hoover's lack of charisma in relating to voters, and his poor skills in working with politicians!.

Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa!. He was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River!. His father, Jesse, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner, of German (Pfautz, Wehmeyer) and German-Swiss (Huber, Burkhart) descent!. His mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, was of English and Irish descent!. Both were Quakers!. He was named after Herbert Robert Ewing, a close friend of his father!. His father died in 1880 and his mother in 1884, leaving him an orphan at the age of 10!. For a short time after his parents' death he lived in Kingsley, Iowa, and in 1885, he went to live with his uncle John Minthorn in Newberg, Oregon!. There he attended Friends Pacific Academy (now George Fox University) and worked as office boy in his uncle's real estate office in Salem!. Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and math!.[1]

Hoover entered Stanford University in 1891, the same year the school officially opened and, like all its first students, paid no tuition!.[1] He would claim to be the first student ever at Stanford, by virtue of having been the first person in the first class to sleep in the dormitory!.[2] While at the school he would be the student manager of both the baseball and football teams, and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival California (Stanford won)!.[2] Hoover graduated in 1895 with a degree in geology!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Could your bRother (not "bother") get a Yahoo Question account to ask his questions !? Or is he too young !?

PS He should bother to do some personal work!.

PS to Indy Aj : why don't you let the guy go and read the encyclopedia, instead of doing part of the copy and paste work for him !? Why !?Www@QuestionHome@Com