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    Years of Adventure 1874-1914

    West Branch, Iowa

    Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in the town of West Branch, Iowa. His Quaker father, Jessie Clark Hoover, a blacksmith and farm redskap salesman, died of a heart attack when Herbert was six years old. Three years later, Herbert's mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover died from pneumonia. Herbert, his older brother Theodore, and younger sister Mary were orphaned. Herbert left Iowa at age 11 in November 1885, bound for Oregon and the home of his maternal uncle, Henry Minthorn, who was a doctor and school övervakare, and later, a real estate broker.

    Oregon and Stanford

    Herbert lived with the Minthorns for six years; at 14, he left school to work as a clerk in his uncle's real estate business. Three years later, having decided to pursue a career as a mining engineer, Hoover sought to resume his studies and applied to a new school, Leland Stanford Junior University, set to open in 1891.

    It was at Stanford that he ma

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    Herbert Hoover

    President of the United States from 1929 to 1933

    This article is about the president of the United States. For other uses, see Herbert Hoover (disambiguation).

    "President Hoover" redirects here. For the ship, see SS President Hoover.

    Herbert Hoover

    Portrait, 1928

    In office
    March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933
    Vice PresidentCharles Curtis
    Preceded byCalvin Coolidge
    Succeeded byFranklin D. Roosevelt
    In office
    March 5, 1921 – August 21, 1928
    President
    Preceded byJoshua W. Alexander
    Succeeded byWilliam F. Whiting
    In office
    August 21, 1917 – November 16, 1918
    PresidentWoodrow Wilson
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byPosition abolished
    In office
    October 22, 1914 – April 14, 1917
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byPosition abolished
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    Herbert Clark Hoover


    (1874-08-10)August 10, 1874
    West Branch, Iowa, U.S.
    Died

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    Early Years

    Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa–the first U.S. president to be born west of the Mississippi River. He was the second of three children in a family of Quakers, who valued honesty, industriousness and simplicity. His father, Jesse Clark Hoover (1846-80), worked as a blacksmith, and his mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover (1848-84), was a teacher. Orphaned at age nine, Hoover was raised primarily by an uncle in Oregon.

    After attending Quaker schools, Hoover became part of the first class to enter Stanford University when it opened in 1891. He graduated four years later with a degree in geology and launched a lucrative career as a mining engineer. Intelligent and hardworking, Hoover traveled all over the world to find valuable mineral deposits and establish business enterprises to extract the resources. His work made him a multimillionaire. On February 10, 1899, Hoover married his college sweetheart, Lou Henry (1874-1944), and the couple h

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