Herbert hoover biography video for students

1. Biography of Herbert Hoover
2. Early Life and Education
3. Professional Career
4. Presidency and the Great Depression
5. Later Years and Legacy

Biography of Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was an administrator in crisis.

He was the first president whose birthplace was west of the Mississippi River. Hoover had an unusual and interesting professional development, and, rare for a president, he did not hold an elected office before entering the White House.

Early Life and Education

Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.

His father was a blacksmith and traded agricultural tools. Two circumstances shaped young Hoover's life: his Quaker religious upbringing, which later influenced his humanitarian and pacifist views, and the early death of his parents, which forced him to take ca