Hoover,Herbert Clark

Hoover,Herbert Clark
Hoo·ver (ho͞oʹvər), Herbert Clark. 1874-1964.
The 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). After the stock market crash of 1929 he was unwilling to finance employment through federal intervention and lost the presidency to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.

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