Herbert Hoover
By: Sean Mack
President Herbert Hoover was the Thirty-First President of the United States of America. Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928. His election seemed to ensure prosperity, yet within months the stock market crashed and the Nation spiraled downward into depression. 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. Hoover's opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, painted him as an unfeeling and cruel President. Hoover became a scapegoat for the depression and was badly defeated in 1932. Hoover is still remembered primarily as a heartless depression president despite his government work during the First World War as head of Commission for the Relief of Belgium, then as director general of the postwar American Relief Association. These activities had made him such a popular figure by 1920 that both parties counted him as a presidential nominee.
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