USA: Herbert Hoover (1874 1964) was the 31st President of the United States, serving from 1929-1933. Oil on canvas, Elmer Wesley Greene (1907-1964),1956
USA: Herbert Hoover (1874 1964) was the 31st President of the United States, serving from 1929-1933. Oil on canvas, Elmer Wesley Greene (1907-1964),1956
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade.
. As president from 1929 to 1933, his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression, that seemed to get worse every year despite the increasingly large-scale interventions he made in the economy.
. He was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, and spent the rest of his life as a conservative denouncing big government, liberalism and federal intervention in economic affairs
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