Herbert Clark Hoover Research Paper

Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874. In West Branch Iowa. This is where he lived for the 9 years of his life. His mother and father passed away whenever he was very young (www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html). His father passed away of a heart attack whenever he was 6 years old and his mother passed away 3 years later with pneumonia. After his mother and father passed away Herbert was left without caregivers, this caused him to have to move to Oregon to live with his uncle Dr. John Minthron (https://hoover.archives.gov).
In Oregon Hoover attended a school called Friends Pacific Academy in Newberg. Hoover was not a very strong student. He barely passed all of his classes and when it came time to apply to college his teachers
Hoover was then selected by President Wilson to be the head of the European Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Hoover channeled 34 million tons of American food, clothing, and supplies to war-torn Europe, aiding people in twenty nations (http://www.hooverpresidentialfoundation.org)
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Hoover was very greatly looked up to and respected because of his service during World War 1. Because of Hoover's knowledge of world affairs, Wilson trusted him at the Versailles Peace Conference and as director of the President's Supreme Economic Council in 1918. The following year, Hoover founded the Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University as an archive for the records of World War I
He believed that getting rid of waste and improving efficiency would achieve some of these results. Hoover hoped that doing all of these things for the economy would help to give strength to the American Experience and individualism.
In 1922, Hoover published a book called American Individualism. It discussed tradition’s social philosophies, such as individualism, socialism, communism, capitalism, and autocracy. He discussed how he felt their should be balance in the right and left wing because that is what would contribute to an organized society, and that it would create opportunities for the Americans to succeed together in unity (http://www.ushistory.org/more/hoover.htm).
As secretary of commerce, Hoover emerged as a potential running-mate for Coolidge in the 1924 presidential election, though that effort fell short.. When Coolidge announced in 1927 that he would not seek reelection, Hoover became the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination