Career of Herbert Hoover - Engineer, Politician, Statesman
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-23 (under Harding)
Secretary of Commerce, 1923-28 (under Coolidge)
Place of Death - Herbert Hoover died on October 20, 1964 in New York, New York
Herbert Hoover was buried in West Branch, Iowa
Next President: President F Delano Roosevelt

Major Events during his presidency

• Stock Market Crash (1929)

• Start of the Great Depression (1929)
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
• Bonus Army March (1932)
• Lame Duck Amendment Ratified (1933)

Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President Herbert Hoover

• Description of President Herbert Hoover - Height 5 feet 11 inches

• Herbert Hoover was raised in a Quaker family
• Hoover travelled the world as a mining engineer
• Hoover was a millionaire and owned silver mines
• Herbert Hoover Age at Inauguration - 54 years old
• Herbert Hoover was blamed for causing the Depression
• When the Hoovers wanted to speak privately while in the presence of White House guests, they spoke Chinese
• Herbert Hoover lost public support due to his reluctance to help the millions of unemployed during the Great Depression. He feared such help would lead to dependence on the state
• His reputation was also damaged by the heavy handed tactics in treating protest marchers employed by General Douglas MacArthur
• Herbert Hoover Age at Death - 90 years old
• Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was Herbert Hoover