Herbert+Hoover

Herbert Hoover!!! Who was Herbert Hoover?He was the Secretary of Commerce and a Republican candidate for president in the year 1928. Son of a Quaker blacksmith, he was born in Iowa in the year 1874 and raised in Oregon. He was an incomparable president because was a humanitarian, administer, and an engineer. He enrolled into Stanford and married his high school sweetheart Lou Henry. Henry went to China and turned out to be China's leading engineer. Hoover's election seemed to ensure prosperity. But within months the stock market had crashed and the nation spiraled into a depression.A week before his 40th birthday, Germany had declared war in France. Hoover said that he would cut taxes and then expand the public works spending. In the year 1930 he became the scapegoat for the depression and then was horribly defeated in the year 1932. Hoover wrote many articles and books. Ironically when he was working on one of those books he died at the age 90 in New York City, on October 20, 1964.This was the story of Herbert Hoover.