Herbert Clark Hoover 1874–1964 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 10 Aug 1874
Event Place: West Branch, Cedar County, Iowa, United States of America
Record Source:
[1] 1930 United States Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Washington, District of Columbia; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 0066; FHL microfilm: 2340028
[2] Millennium File
[3] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index
[4] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
[5] Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: West Branch, Cedar, Iowa, United States
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1895
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1895
Event Place: Graduate of Stanford University
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1916
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1920
Event Place: Stanford, Santa Clara, California, United States
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 1928
Event Place: Elected 31st President of the United States
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Washington, District of Columbia
Record Source:
[1] 1930 United States Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Washington, District of Columbia; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 0066; FHL microfilm: 2340028
[2] "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1935
Event Place: Same House, ,
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Palo Alto Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1957
Event Place: New York, New York, United States
Record Source: School: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Title: Who's Who Among Earlhamites, 1957

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Place: 31st president of the United States.
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Place: General
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Record Source: Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.
Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.
He married His Stanford Sweetheart, Lou Henry, And They Went To China, Where He Worked For A Private Corporation As China'S Leading Engineer. In June 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.
One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far more difficult task, to feed Belgium, which had been overrun by the German army.
After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed.
After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. When a critic inquired if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, "Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!"
After capably serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928. He said then: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." His election seemed to ensure prosperity. Yet within months the stock market crashed, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the Federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931 repercussions from Europe deepened the crisis, even though the President presented to Congress a program asking for creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures, banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
His opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel President. Hoover became the scapegoat for the depression and was badly defeated in 1932. In the 1930's he became a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism.
In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover to a commission, which elected him chairman, to reorganize the Executive Departments. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies resulted from both commissions' recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died at 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964.

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Place: Secretary of Commerce.
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Occupation
Event Place: 31st President
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Occupation
Event Place: 31st President of the United States
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Occupation
Event Place: President of the United States
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Occupation
Event Place: Washington, D.C.
Record Source: "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.

Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Oct 1964
Event Place: New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, United States of America
Record Source:
[1] Millennium File
[2] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index
[3] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current

Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: Oct 1964
Event Place: Springdale, Cedar, Iowa, United States
Record Source:
[1] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
[2] "FamilySearch," Database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, accessed 8 Jun 2016), entry for Herbert Clark Hoover, person ID LHTD-CQW.