Education:
Graduated from Stanford University (1895).
Occupation:
Engineer
Religion:
Society of Friends (Quaker)
Wife:
Lou
Henry (1875-1944), on February 10, 1899
Children:
Herbert Clark Hoover (1903-69);
Allan
Henry Hoover (1907-93)
Father:
Jesse Clark Hoover
Mother:
Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover
Years in
office:
(March 4, 1929 to March 3, 1933)
Born:
August
10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa
Died:
October 20, 1964, in New York, New York
Age at
death:
90
Elected
from:
Political
Party:
Republican
Other Government
Positions:
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-23 (under Harding)
Secretary of Commerce, 1923-28 (under Coolidge)
Presidential
Salary:
$75,000/year
Vice
President:
Charles Curtis (1929-33)
Secretary of
State:
Henry L. Stimson (1929-33)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
Andrew W. Mellon (1929-32)
Ogden L. Mills (1932-33)
Secretary of
War:
James W. Good (1929)
Patrick J. Hurley (1929-33)
Attorney
General:
William DeWitt Mitchell (1929-33)
Postmaster
General:
Walter F. Brown (1929-33)
Secretary of the
Navy:
Charles F. Adams (1929-33)
Secretary of the
Interior:
Ray L. Wilbur (1929-33)
Secretary of
Agriculture:
Arthur M. Hyde (1929-33)
Secretary of
Commerce:
Robert P. Lamont (1929-32)
Roy D. Chapin (1932-33)
Secretary of
Labor:
James J. Davis (1929-30)
William N. Doak (1930-33)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
Herbert Hoover
National Historic Site
PO Box 1427