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Herbert Hoover was the United States of America’s 31st president. Below are some great facts on President Herbert Hoover or alternatively download our comprehensive worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.

  • Herbert Hoover was born in Iowa on August 10, 1874. He was the first president to ever come from west of the Mississippi River. He never crossed that said river eastward until he was 22!
  • Hoover was only 6 when his father died because of a heart attack. At 9, his mother followed suit leaving him and his two siblings parentless. Hoover was shipped off to Oregon to live with his uncle when he was 11.
  • At 17, Hoover enrolled in a new university on the West Coast founded by industrialist Leland Stanford. While he failed the entrance exam, he got Standford so impressed with him and his remarkable keenness that he had him enrolled with conditions, of course.
  • This new university went on to become Stanford University. Hoover was part of its first batch of students.
  • He graduated from the university with a geology degree in 1895.
  • After he graduated from Stanford, Hoover worked for the Bewick, Moreing and Co., a British mining enterprise. Here, he was able to travel throughout the world locating profitable mineral deposits.
  • He was so successful at his job that he was promoted to become the fourth partner of the firm at the early age of 27.
  • From here, Hoover went on to become a self-made millionaire. One of his famous words is, “If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much”.
  • He left Bewick, Moreing and Co. in 1908. But he developed many business interests throughout the globe, in every continent except Antarctica. When he became president, he donated his salary to charity.
  • While accused of being callous on the sad plight of those who had to go through the long bread lines during the Great Depression, Hoover actually helped millions during the two world wars [WWI and WWII].

– He led a private effort that fought for the release of 120,000 Americans stranded in Europe when WWI broke out.

– He was recruited by the government to deliver food to neutral Belgium where 7 million were experiencing starvation because of the war.

– He was the head of the American relief Association which went on to deliver foods to the over 20 countries torn by war.

– He gave food aid to drought-ridden Soviet Union in 1923 saving countless of lives from starvation.

  • Hoover was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace prize because of his humanitarian work.
  • After WWII ended, President Harry Truman, who was a Democrat, asked him, a Republican, to go around the world and coordinate efforts to stamp down global starvation.
  • Both Republicans and Democrats wanted him in their respective parties in 1920, after WWII. This was because Hoover was so popular at that time due to his humanitarian wors. Pres. Franklin Roosevelt even voiced out that he wished Hoover would become the president.
  • 12 years later, however, Roosevelt and Hoover got locked up in the fight for presidency and became bitter foes. Roosevelt won by landslide vote.
  • On April 7, 1927, Herbert Hoover starred in the first TV broadcast in American history. He was President Calvin Coolidge’s Secretary of Commerce at this time. For the first time ever, his voice and image was transmitted through telephone wires.
  • Winning the presidency during the 1928 presidential election was Hoover’s first electoral win.
  • Hoover took office in 1929. It was the same year that America’s economy plummeted giving way to the Great Depression.
  • Hooverball, a sport that was played like tennis on a court that’s very alike to the latter’s court but the only difference was that players throw the ball and didn’t use rackets, was named after him. The sport was developed by White House physician Admiral Joel T. Boone to keep the president [Hoover] fit.
  • To date, a national Hooverball championship game is held every year in Hoover’s birthplace in Iowa.
  • There was a time that Hoover Dam was named Boulder Dam. Here’s the story:
  • The Hoover Dam project got its approval when Hoover was the Secretary of Commerce. Its construction was done while he was the president. However, after seeing the finished project, Harold Ickes, the Secretary of Interior of President Roosevelt, said that Hoover had very little to do with the completion of the dam. He named it Boulder Dam.
  • On September 30, 1935, Hoover was not invited to the dam’s opening and dedication.
  • It was President Harry Truman, later on, who signed a law that changed the name Boulder Dam back to its original — Hoover Dam.
  • President Hoover was the one who signed the law that made the Star-Spangled Banner America’s national anthem. He signed it on March 3, 1931.
  • The Star-Spangled Banner was based on an 1814 poem written by Francis Scott Key.
  • Herbert Hoover was the first Quaker president.
  • Both his parents were Quakers. Upon their deaths, he was raised by an uncle who was also a Quaker.
  • Lou Henry Hoover, Hoover’s wife, was a well-respected lady. She was known to be very active with the Girl Scouts.
  • Hoover and his wife knew how to speak in Chinese. Apparently the couple used to use the language from time to time when they didn’t want to be overheard.
  • Hoover served as the Secretary of Commerce for two presidents: Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The years he spent serving in this office was from 1921 to 1928.
  • Herbert Hoover was the president when the Great Depression started. It began 7 months into his first term as president.
  • Because of the effects of the Great Depression and blamed for the bulk of it, Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt when he ran for reelection.
  • But in 1946, Hoover came out of his retirement to help coordinate food supply worldwide as a means to stop global famine from happening. He was also chosen to be the chairman of the Hoover Commission which ran from 1947 to 1949. The commission was responsible for the organization of the government’s executive branch.

President Herbert Hoover Worksheets

This bundle contains 11 ready-to-use President Herbert Hoover Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Herbert Hoover who was the United States of America’s 31st president.

Download includes the following worksheets:

  • Herbert Hoover Facts
  • The Great Humanitarian
  • Word Bank
  • Great Depression Cause & Effects
  • Hoover’s Presidents
  • WWI & WWII
  • Hoover Dam Facts
  • U.S. Nicks
  • Hooverian Quotes
  • Cartoon Analysis
  • Hoover Administration

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