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=**Herbert Hoover:**= =31st President of the United States=

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" Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body- the producers and consumers themselves"=====

- Herbert Hoover
"We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government."- Herbert Hoover

Born: August 10, 1874 Died: October 20, 1964

Herbert Hoover was born in 1874 in Iowa. As a child, his mother died and he became an orphan at age 10. He then went to go live with his uncle in Oregon. When Hoover grew up he went to Standford University, and was in the first classs there when it opened in 1891. There he received an engineer degreee. He traveled the world to find mineral deposits and his work helped him to become a millionare at the age of 40years old. In 1829 Hoover took office as the 31st President of the United States. He promised to bring peace and prosperity to the nation. But after 7months of being in office, the US stock market went down and crashed and this started the Great Depression. He said in his State of the Union Addresss, "Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public treasury". Hoover tried many different things to help the economy and get it back on track. In 1931, Hoover signed a law that made "The Star-Spangled Banner"' the National Anthem. After Hoover left office, the great depression continued for eight more years. By the time of the 1932 Presidential election, becasue he was insensitive to most americans and problems went on while he was in office, he was blamed for the Great Depression and Hoover became unpopular to most of the country. He then lost to FDR in the election. And after leaving office he became a huge critic of the New Deal Program by Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover wrote several books about his political views. Hoover died at age 90 in 1964, in New York City.



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By: Maria Wood, Shannon Hahn, Mallory Thompson