Herbert Hoover
1874 – 1964 American 31st President of the United States
Thirty-first U.S. president at the onset of the Great Depression.
- Religion
- Quaker
- Affiliations
- Republican Party; not a Freemason.
Hoover, a mining engineer and humanitarian, took office months before the 1929 stock market crash. His response to the Great Depression was seen as inadequate and cost him reelection in 1932. He later led humanitarian and government reform efforts.
In the timeline
- 1922 Hoover pushes for US trade with Soviet Russia mentioned
- 1930 Founding of the Veterans Administration mentioned
- 1931 Hoover moratorium on war debts and reparations mentioned
- 1931 Hoover declares a one-year debt and reparations moratorium mentioned
- 1932 George Washington Masonic Memorial Dedicated mentioned