 President Herbert Hoover Timeline
Important Dates, World and National Events During His Lifetime
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| 1874 |
Born in West Branch, Iowa |
| 1891 |
Enrolled at Stanford University |
| 1898 |
Became Chief Engineer of the Chinese Imperial Bureau of Mines |
| 1899 |
Married Lou Henry |
| 1900 |
The Boxer Rebellion trapped the Hoovers in Tiensin, China |
| 1903 |
Son Herbert Clark was born |
| 1907 |
Son Allan Henry was born |
| 1908 |
Established his own engineering firm |
| 1914 |
Headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium |
| 1917 |
Appointed United States Food Administrator |
| 1921 |
Became Secretary of Commerce |
| 1928 |
Elected President of the United States |
| 1929 |
Inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States |
| 1929 |
The Stock Market crashed on October 29th, marked the start of the Great Depression |
| 1932 |
More than 10,000,000 Americans are unemployed |
| 1932 |
Lost the re-election for President |
| 1933 |
U.S. population is 125,600,000 with 48 states in the Union |
| 1933 |
Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany |
| 1933 |
20th Amendment of the Constitution is adopted which made Hoover the last "lame duck" President |
| 1934 |
Published his book The Challenge to Liberty |
| 1944 |
Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover died |
| 1947 |
Truman appointed Hoover chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government |
| 1954 |
he Herbert Hoover Foundation was created by a group of friends |
| 1964 |
Hoover died on October 20th at the age of 90 in New York City |
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