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Thirty-first president of the United States (1929-1933)
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was a member of the Republican Party, and held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe. In the 1920s, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Born

10 Aug 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, in West Branch, Iowa

Died

20 Oct 1964, in New York City

Articles

Hoover's Second Wrecking of American Agriculture, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Dec 2005
Follow-up to "How the Feds Took Over Farming", describes the policies of Hoover's Federal Farm Board, the Smoot-Hawley Act, the Federal Reserve and taxes as contributors to the Great Depression and particularly their effect on farmers
Herbert Hoover, nominated by the Republican Party to replace Coolidge in the 1928 presidential race, strongly supported federal farm intervention. In his speech accepting the presidential nomination in 1928, Hoover promised to create a farm board to "establish for our farmers an income equal to those of other occupations." ... Lionel Robbins, a British economist, observed in 1934,
The grandiose buying organizations by which Hoover tried to maintain agricultural prices had the effect of demoralizing markets altogether, by the accumulation of stocks and the creation of uncertainty.

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