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Herbert HooverSteven, Sam and Tyler

Herbert Hoover was born in 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. He did international relief work and he was a millionaire at age 40. He became an orphan at age 10. He went to Stanford University at age 17 and was very great at math and geology and had an engineer degree. He went around the world five times in 17 years and worked in china and Australia. He was at the siege of Tianjin during the boxer rebellion. He helped the city ration food for the two month siege. This caused him to be a general manager of the mining company. He was really great at his job he had worldwide recognition for being a mining engineer. He worked at Stanford and Colombia universities were he gave lectures about mining. He led a relief effort for 120,000 Americans in Europe during WWI. This caused him to lead a Commission in Belgium and northern France that spent over 1.5 billion dollars and helped 10 million people. Then after WWI he helped fed and clothed 200 million people in Europe. And he started the American relief administration witch used 100 million dollars to feed children in Europe. In 1928 he announced he was running for president as a republican candidate and won the presidential election in 1929. During the beginning of the great depression he believed that people will donate and volunteer to help the poor and hungry witch did not work and apposed all federal welfare. Then in 1932 he the presidential election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. He severely disliked all of the new deal ** "On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a law that made "The Star-Spangled Banner," based on an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), America's national anthem." (history.com) **

Herbert Hoover's efforts in the construction of the Boulder Dam in Colorado resulted in the name being changed to the Hoover Dam twelve years later.