Herbert Hoover: A Biography, Volume 10Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 -1964) was an American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was born in West Branch, Iowa, son of .Jesse Hoover and Hulda Randall Minthorn. He married Lou Henry (1874-1944) in 1899 and they had two sons. |
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Child of the American West | 1 |
Quaker Boyhood | 10 |
Student at Stanford | 23 |
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