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11 de jun. de 2018 · Herbert Clark Hoover was born August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa , a small Quaker settlement near Iowa City. His father, Jesse Hoover, was a village blacksmith and merchant. Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover, his mother, was an active lay minister in the Society of Friends, which the Quakers had come to be called.
Herbert Hoover, enginyer de professió, va fer fortuna gestionant mines i indústries de capital estatunidenc a l'estranger, retirat de l'activitat empresarial va desenvolupar una àmplia campanya filantròpica, principalment després de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que li va donar un notable prestigi social, després d'això va entrar en política.
Overview. Upon accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1928, Herbert Hoover predicted that "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." Hoover won the presidency that year, but his time in office belied his optimistic assertion.
7 de dic. de 2016 · Herbert Hoover, presidente de EEUU entre 1929 y 1933. Herbert Hoover fue presidente desde 1929 hasta 1933. Entró en la presidencia durante la época de bonanza producida por la artificial expansión del crédito que se realizó durante esos años. Al estallar la Gran Depresión muchos afirman que sus políticas fueron las comunes.
28 de ene. de 2019 · Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the United States. He was born on August 11, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa. Here are ten key facts to know about Herbert Hoover, who he was as a person and his tenure as president.
Herbert Hoover, mining engineer, humanitarian, statesman, and 31st President of the United States, was born August 10, 1874 in a simple two-room cottage in West Branch, Iowa. His Quaker family had helped settle the town, and their principles of honesty, hard work, simplicity, and generosity guided Hoover throughout his life of service to the nation and the world.
4 de oct. de 2016 · “At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full… [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Freedom from FearPrizewinning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood president, offering up a surprising new portrait of ...
