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Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933

Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933. Shimmy Niver and Khurstie Blair. Born in an Iowa village in 1874. Grew in Oregon Enrolled into Stanford University when it opened in 1891. Graduated as a mining engineer

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Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933

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  1. Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 Shimmy Niver and Khurstie Blair

  2. Born in an Iowa village in 1874. • Grew in Oregon • Enrolled into Stanford University when it opened in 1891. • Graduated as a mining engineer • Married his Stanford sweet heart, Lou Henry and they went to China • Worked for a private corporation as China’s leading engineer.

  3. In 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. Hoover directed the building of barricades and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children, while the settlement was under heavy fire.

  4. The American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home when Germany declared war on France. • His committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States.

  5. President Wilson appointed Hoover head of Food Administration • He was a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration and organized shipments of food for starving millions in Central Europe and extended aid to famine- stricken Soviet Russia in 1921.

  6. Work Cited http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/HerbertHoover/ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008

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