Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.

* Agricola's De Re Metallica translated by former President H. Hoover and his wife L. H.

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Also in March 1947, former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, in one of his reports from Germany, argued for a change in U. S. occupation policy, amongst other things stating:

The relief drive, directed by former president Herbert Hoover, included a coast-to-coast tour by Nurmi and Mäki.

of Commerce Herbert Hoover wrote the Seattle speech and Harding claimed he would protect the territory from looters and profit seekers ; a rebuff to former Sec.

As the convention opened in Philadelphia on June 24, Gallup reported that in a poll taken a few days earlier, Willkie had moved up to 29 %, Dewey had slipped 5 % to 47 %, and Taft, Vandenberg, and former President Hoover trailed at 8 %, 8 %, and 6 % respectively.

The leading candidates were Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis.

Little-known former United States Senator Joseph I. France ran against Hoover in the primaries, but Hoover was often unopposed.

As the delegates were arriving in Philadelphia, Gallup reported that Willkie had surged to 29 %, Dewey had slipped 5 more points to 47 %, and Taft, Vandenberg and former President Herbert Hoover trailed at 8 %, 8 %, and 6 % respectively.

Dewey alienated former president and fellow Republican Herbert Hoover during the campaign by ignoring him at the funeral of Wendell Willkie ; according to historian William Leuchtenburg, Hoover confided to a friend that " Dewey has no inner reservoir of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking ," elaborating that " A man couldn't wear a mustache like that without having it affect his mind.

The former US President Herbert Hoover ( 1874-1964 ) was born in West Branch in Cedar County.

Herbert Hoover High School, named in honor of former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, is located in Clendenin, a few miles north of Elkview.

An independent investigation of the event was undertaken by Russian politicians Sergei Yushenkov, Sergei Kovalev, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Hoover Institute scholar John B. Dunlop, and former FSB officers Aleksander Litvinenko and Mikhail Trepashkin.

" Most often described as " wry ," Brinkley once suggested on the air that the best way to resolve the controversy over whether to change the name of Boulder Dam to " Hoover Dam " was to have former president Herbert Hoover change his name to " Herbert Boulder ".

Unhappy with the Morgenthau-plan consequences, former U. S. President Herbert Hoover remarked in a report dated 18 March 1947:

Meanwhile in Germany large parts of the population were starving at a time when according to a study done by former U. S. President Herbert Hoover the nutritional condition in countries that in Western Europe was nearly pre-war normal ".

Reports such as this by former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, dated March 1947, also argued for a change of policy, among other things through speaking frankly of the expected consequences.

In 1956 former President Hoover, under the auspices of the Institute and Library, launched a major fundraising campaign that allowed the Institute to realize its current form as a think tank and archive.

* 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )

J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

* 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US $ 150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

The FBI is headquartered at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D. C., with 56 field offices in major cities across the United States.

The translation was made by Herbert Hoover, then an American mining engineer ( better known to history for his later term as a President of the United States ), and his wife Lou Henry Hoover.

Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.

After the United States entered the war in April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to head the U. S. Food Administration.

It has been suggested that Herbert Hoover was the best Secretary of Commerce in United States history.

Herbert Hoover as the new President of the United States ; original drawing for an Oscar Cesare political cartoon, March 17, 1929

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, he and Secretary of State Henry Stimson outlined the Hoover – Stimson Doctrine which held that the United States would not recognize territories gained by force.

In 1931 Hoover issued the Hoover Moratorium, calling for a one-year halt in reparation payments by Germany to France and in the payment of Allied war debts to the United States.

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and others.

* 1932 – U. S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D. C.

John Edgar Hoover ( January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972 ) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) of the United States.

While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City United States Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns against fraud and vice, and also was against pornography and birth control.

Targets during this period included Marcus Garvey ; Rose Pastor Stokes and Cyril Briggs ; Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman ; and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter, whom Hoover maintained was " the most dangerous man in the United States ".

* In 1950, King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded Hoover an honorary knighthood in the Order of the British Empire.

J. Edgar Hoover: Memorial Tributes in the Congress of the United States and Various Articles and Editorials Relating to His Life and Work appeared in 1974.

* 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States ' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

* 1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States ( b. 1874 )

By a law signed on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, " The Star-Spangled Banner " was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.

* October 20 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States ( b. 1874 )