WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- With an extraordinary display of Republican pageantry, Herbert Hoover was today made ... laying down the policies he intends to pursue. It was a far more ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.

Running on a progressive platform, Herbert C. Hoover was enormously popular. His economic acuity was especially respected as he had established his capable good judgment during his tenure as secretary ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little ... If elected, he proposed the following policies: ...

Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, ...

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.