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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover
(August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the
31st
President of the United States
(1929–33). He was a professional
mining engineer
and was raised as a
Quaker
. A
Republican
, Hoover served as head of the
U.S. Food Administration
during
World War I
, and became internationally known for humanitarian relief efforts in war-time
Belgium
. As the
United States Secretary of Commerce
in the 1920s under Presidents
Warren G. Harding
and
Calvin Coolidge
, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In
the presidential election of 1928
, Hoover easily won the
Republican nomination
, despite having no elected-office experience. 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
) elected without electoral experience or high military rank.
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