Analyzing Herbert Hoover's Early Life

Herbert Hoover in his early life went through many trials and tribulations. The man that became president was once a boy with a dark childhood. Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874 in the state of Iowa. At the early age of nine Herbert was left as an orphan. These early experiences of his childhood left him scared with a dark past; because of these experiences from his early life “his boyhood experiences left Hoover permanently reclusive and wary to a degree that not even decades of success could erase, and they would have unfortunate political consequences when he sought to lead the nation” (P1). These experiences of his childhood not only affected him as a child or young adult, but also as an adult that became the president of the United Sates as well.
This left a long lasting imprint on president Hoover. I would like to reference page 3 Herbert Hoover “Quakerism accentuated this somberness plain speech; plain dress; cold; hard benches. To a degree, the Society of Friends left lasting imprints on Hoover’s character and temperament his self-reliance, his disdain for show, and his capacity for toil and on his view of the world: his dutiful commitment to good works, his trust in a community of neighbors to sustain the needy, his pursuit of peace, and his conception of “ordered freedom” (P3). The trials and tribulations of Hoovers lifetimes shaped the man that became president and the way he ran the