biography
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Hoover, Herbert (Clark)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1964)
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| biography:
| US statesman and 31st president (1929–33), born in West Branch, Iowa, USA. He studied at Stanford, then worked abroad as an engineer. During and after World War 1 he was associated with the relief of distress in Europe. In 1921 he became secretary of commerce, and in 1928 received the Republican Party's presidential nomination. As president, his opposition to direct governmental assistance for the unemployed after the world slump of 1929 made him unpopular, and he was beaten by Roosevelt in 1932. He assisted Truman with the various American–European economic relief programmes which followed World War 2. The Hoover Dam is named after him. |
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